- Defence Security Corps celebrated its 77th Raising Day on 25 February 2024.
- It was raised on 25 February 1947 as ‘Defence Department Constabulary’.
- Its troops are providing security to different sensitive defence and civil installations across the length and breadth of India since 1947.
- Defence Security Corps is a corps of the Indian Army.
- It is responsible for providing security cover to the defence installations of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
- It is the sixth largest corps of the Army. Its motto is Raksha Tatha Suraksha.
