Delhi police starts drive to recruit from all states

The Delhi police, the law enforcing arm of the national capital, has launched a pan India recruitment drive. Top brass has given a serious push to the recruitment drive to make Delhi police a truly cosmopolitan police force. Since Delhi hosts people from all over the country, the recruitment drive for constables is being conducted across India. Delhi police officers are camping in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city to recruit constables. Quota has been fixed to rope in candidates from all other states to make the Delhi police a model pan Indian force. The recruitments drive for the post of 4,669 constables is being done across 28 states.

It is learnt that the recruitment drive has been started from Gujarat, where a team of Delhi police, headed by deputy commissioner of police Suvashish Chaudhary, is camping in Ahmedabad to carry out recruitment process.

While the Delhi Police has a sanctioned strength of 84,000, its present strength is of 77,000 personnel. There are about 1,500 to 3,000 vacancies every year. Women make up a mere eight. At present about 1,700 additional women personnel are undergoing training.

This is the first occasion when the force will first carry out physical test followed by a written examination. According to sources, the Delhi police has approached the Staff Selection Commission to carry out written examination. Mr Chaudhary is said to have sought the cooperation of the Gujarat police for its recruitment drive.

Police commissioner Alok Kumar Verma has asked special commissioner of police R.S. Krishniah, heading recruitment division of the force, to send a team led by the additional commissioners of police or deputy commissioners of police to all the 28 states to carry out recruitment drives.

The Delhi police will carry out medical and physical tests of candidates and then share the list of selected candidates with the commission for conducting a written examination on March 4, 2017. The force has received more than 15 lakh application forms for the post of 4,669 constables across the country.

The force is looking for 3,115 males and 1,554 female constables across the country. The age limit for males is 18 to 21 years, while that of females is 18 to 25 years.

Statistics suggest that about 75 per cent of the constables recruited in 2009 and 2011 were from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, followed by Rajasthan, while Delhi came a distant fourth.

The number of personnel from other states such as Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh was almost nil. But before 1990, the number of personnel in the force was almost equal from all states. The force hasn’t conducted any demographic study to show from which states they had serving personnel and other recruits.

The Delhi police is a force under the Central government, and accordingly, anybody who is a citizen of India is eligible to join it.

But for the past two decades, the recruitment has been limited only to the neighbouring states. This has changed its cosmopolitan character.

At present, most people recruited as constables and sub-inspectors belong to the neighbouring states such as Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.