Uttar Pradesh Police has recruited 1,54,211 personnel in the last six years, senior police officers stated on Wednesday.
In 2022 alone, direct recruitment was completed for 9,534 sub-inspector (SI) and equal posts in a file time of 100 days, they stated and claimed that this was one of many largest direct recruitment drives for sub-inspectors completed by any police drive in the nation.
Total, 13,023 sub-inspector and its equal posts had been stuffed in the previous six years; 2,110 of them got to ladies candidates. Additionally, 1,33,367—of whom 19,166 are ladies—had been recruited as civil police constables and in equal posts at Provincial Armed Constabulary and others, they added.
Additionally, 2,492 dependents of police personnel who died throughout their service interval, had been recruited as sub-inspectors, constables and in different posts in the police drive.
They additional stated that round 1,349 had been recruited as clerks, 667 as laptop operators, 3,638 as jail waders, 2,065 as firemen and 102 as mounted police personnel.
As well as, at the least two per cent of the direct recruitment was completed underneath the sports activities quota. As many as 490 athletes of twenty-two sports activities had been recruited; out of them 312 are males and 178 are ladies. Additionally, recruitment underneath sports activities quota for 531 posts of various ranks — 318 civil police sub-inspectors, 174 PAC constables, 27 constables of particular safety drive, two mounted police personnel and 10 platoon commanders—was underway, they added.