One-third of Delhi police force to be women: Rajnath Singh
The polic-population ratio in Delhi, as of January 2013, was 391.33 per 100,000 people, as against the sanctioned strength of 420.49
New Delhi: Women will constitute one-third of the Delhi Police force, home minister Rajnath Singh told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
“We have decided to increase the number of women personnel in Delhi police to one-third. Our effort is also to increase women personnel in state police and central police forces to one-third," he said during question hour.
The police-population ratio in Delhi (as of January 2013) was 391.33 per 100,000 people, as against the sanctioned strength of 420.49.
“There is shortage of manpower in state/central police and Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre," Singh said.
He said that as of January 2013, the actual strength of police personnel across India is 136.42 per 100,000 people, against a sanctioned strength of 181.47.
Singh said the home ministry has repeatedly advised state governments to fill up the vacancies in the state police forces.
He said that to fill up the vacancies of IPS officers, the batch size of the IPS (direct recruitment) had been increased from 88 to 103 from the Civil Services Examination (CSE), 2005 and further to 150 from CSE, 2009.
The government had also introduced a third mode of recruitment to the IPS through “limited competitive examination" to recruit 80 candidates annually. However, due to court cases, recruitment is yet to be carried out through this mode of examination.
Singh also said the process of appointments to the IPS by promotion from the state police service has been accelerated.
To another question, minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju said that the President has given his assent to “The Industrial Employment (Standing Order) (Karnataka Amendment) Bill, 2005" in February 2014, which was conveyed to the state government the same month.
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