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India had 192 police personnel per 100,000 population, lower than the UN recommended 222 policemen per 100,000 population, according to the 2017 report by Bureau of Police Research and Development, a consultancy under home ministry. Follow the thread for insights:
Sanctioned police strength across the country is 2.4 mn out of which 1.9 mn is for civil police (handling law & order on a daily basis); actual strength is 1.9 mn out of which 1.5 mn is in the civil police, a shortfall of 21% in overall police strength & civil police.
Sanctioned civil police per 100,000 population is 155 while the actual number is 121. Sparsely populated states of Manipur (1,252 policemen) & Arunachal Pradesh (999 policemen) have the highest police-population ratio.
Police-area ratio (police per 100 sq. kms) sanctioned is 78 policemen per 100 sq.kms while the actual ratio is 61. Chandigarh with 5,895 and Delhi with 5,692 have the maximum policemen available per 100 sq.kms while Rajasthan (30.5) and Himachal Pradesh (30.4) have the lowest.
There were 538,237 vacancies (22%) in the police force, a 2 percentage point decline from 2016 when there were 549,025 vacancies (24%).
Click here to read the report: bit.ly/2SXoKgH
