The Panau Police Force (Abbreviation: PPF; Malay: Pasukan Polis Panau; Tamil: பாணஉ காவல் துறை) is the main agency tasked with maintaining law and order in state.Formerly known as Panau National Police (Abbreviation: PNP; Malay: Polis Nasional Panau), it has grown from an 9-man organisation to a 41,543 strong force. It enjoys a relatively positive public image,and is credited for helping to arrest Panau's civic unrests and lawlessness in its early years, and maintaining the low crime rate today despite having a smaller police-citizen ratio compared to other major cities.Panau has been ranked consistently in the top twenty positions in the Global Competitiveness Report in terms of its reliability of police services.