The one-man committee tasked with drawing up a recruitment plan for Indian Police Service officers, based on an assessment of India’s policing needs between 2009 and 2020, has recommended that 130 recruitments be made annually in the next 11 years in addition to the holding of a Limited Competitive Examination for Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSPs) to recruit an additional 448 IPS officers to make up for the current shortage and take care of future requirements.
“The Limited Competitive Examination would be limited to DSPs of both state and the central police forces. Since the DSPs have already been selected through a set process and have undergone training, inducting them into the IPS can be done promptly,” claims Kamal Kumar, a retired IPS officer and former director of the National Police Academy, who submitted his report to the Ministry of Home Affairs recently.
“Recruitment through the Limited Competitive Exam has to be in addition to the 130 recruitments that need to be made annually over the next 11 years,” he added.
Till January 1 this year, IPS was 557 officers short of its sanctioned strength of 3,889, 314 out of whom fell in the direct recruitment quota.
“The report confirms my conclusion that there was grave neglect in determining the number of candidates to be recruited to the IPS in the Civil Services Examination during the 1999-2002 period, and that, as against the number of 85, only 36 candidates were recruited each year, resulting in a shortfall of 49 candidates a year or a total shortfall of 196 candidates,” Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Friday.
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