Police vacancies

With 5.5 lakh posts in police force lying vacant across the country, the Centre has asked all states to fill up the vacancies in a time-bound manner, preferably within a year, as the crime graph is soaring gradually.

In separate letters to chief secretaries and DGPs of all states and union territories, Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami said the number of cognisable IPC crimes in the country has gone up to 26,47,722 in 2013 from 21,21,345 in 2009 and provision of adequate manpower in state police forces is one of the pre-requisites to arrest such a trend.

“In view of the aforesaid, may I request you to initiate a time-bound action plan to fill up the existing vacancies in the state police preferably within a period of one year,” he wrote in the letter.

The highest 1,01,100 posts of police personnel are lying vacant in Uttar Pradesh, followed by 45,191 in Gujarat, 38,725 in West Bengal and 32,247 vacancies in Andhra Pradesh as on January 1, 2013

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Even Satyamev Jayate has covered this. By some estimates only 0.5% of GDP is spent on police which comes to 3lakh per policeman
But there are some moot questions

1. If you recruit 5 lakh people in a year, do you have enough training infrastrucutre?
2. With advent of technology should linear relationship between crime & policemen continue?
3. when does economy of scale kick in?
4. Are you focussing on recruitment for specialised fields like cyber crime etc or not?
5. Is it correct to copy western countries police population ratio & apply them to india to declare we have shortfall?
6. How about separating L&O and investigation?
7. How about force deployed in VIP security?
8. Have we paid attention to level at which vacancies are. Constable, HC, SI or Inspector?