{"id":236717,"date":"2023-04-07T20:48:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236717"},"modified":"2023-04-13T13:41:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T08:11:55","slug":"representation-in-indias-police-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/representation-in-indias-police-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Representation in India\u2019s police forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cRepresentation in India\u2019s police forces<\/strong>\u201d published in The Hindu <\/strong>on\u00a07th<\/sup> April 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 <\/strong>Social Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>Findings of <\/strong>India Justice Report 2022.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: India Justice Report 2022 has been recently released.<\/p>\n

What are the findings of the report for the police in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Overall Performer:<\/strong> Overall, the Telangana police have bagged the top rank<\/strong> among States while West Bengal has come last<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Overall Vacancies:<\/strong> The overall police vacancies increased from 20.3% of the sanctioned strength to 22.1% between January 2020 and January 2022.<\/p>\n

Vacancies for Police constables:<\/strong> West Bengal was the worst performer among large and mid-size States with vacancies amounting to 44.1% of the sanctioned strength.<\/p>\n

Kerala was at the top with constable vacancies<\/strong> making up 4.6% of the sanctioned strength.<\/p>\n

Vacancies for Police officers:<\/strong> Bihar has the highest percentage of vacancies at 53.8% as against the sanctioned strength.<\/p>\n

Must Read: <\/strong>The Just In Justice – A detailed report on the legal system shows how and why the poor are its biggest victims<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

How have States performed in fulfilling their quotas for Women, SC and ST communities in the Police?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Karnataka was the only State<\/strong> to meet its SC, ST, and Other backward classes quotas.<\/p>\n

Scheduled Caste<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police Officers:<\/strong> Among large and mid-sized States<\/strong>, Gujarat at 131% was the best performer in terms of the percentage of actual SC police officers to its reservation quota while Uttar Pradesh came last with 43% SC officers against its quota.<\/p>\n

Police Constables:<\/strong> Karnataka had 116% of SC constables against its quota, while Haryana had the lowest at 63%.<\/p>\n

Small States:<\/strong> As for small States, Goa and Sikkim were the best performers for the percentage of SC officers and constables, respectively.<\/p>\n

Scheduled Tribes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police Officers:<\/strong> Karnataka, at 176%, was the best performer on the police officer level, going beyond its reserved ratio.<\/p>\n

Police Constables:<\/strong> Bihar fulfilled its quota by 278%, while Punjab came in last in large and medium States at 0.01%.<\/p>\n

Women\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most States have their own specific quotas for the number of women required in the police force.<\/p>\n

For instance,<\/strong> six UTs and nine States have a target of 33% reservation for women while it varies from Bihar\u2019s 35% to 10% in Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Tripura.\u00a0Five States\/UTs, including Kerala and Mizoram, have no reservations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As per the findings, no State which had the 33% criteria, managed to meet it<\/strong> and it will take another 24 years to have 33% women in police forces across States.<\/p>\n

However, among large and medium States<\/strong>, Andhra Pradesh which reserves 33% of overall police posts for women, performed the best with 21.8%. Jharkhand was the worst performer with its share of women in police being just 6.2%.<\/p>\n

In small States<\/strong>, Himachal Pradesh was at the top with 14% while Tripura came in last with just 5.3%. Among Union Territories<\/strong>, Ladakh had 28.3% women in police, while Jammu and Kashmir had just 3.3%.<\/p>\n

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Source: The Hindu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cRepresentation in India\u2019s police forces\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a07th April 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Social Justice Relevance: Findings of India Justice Report 2022. News: India Justice Report 2022 has been recently released. What are the findings of the report for the police in India? Overall Performer:… Continue reading Representation in India\u2019s police forces<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,11370,6477,10498],"class_list":["post-236717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-india-justice-report-2022","tag-police-reforms","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}