Police Policy: देश में आईपीएस अधिकारियों की भारी कमी, अब राज्य सेवा और पैरामिलिटरी फोर्सेस के अधिकारियों को मिल सकता है मौका....

There is an acute shortage of IPS officers throughout the country. In January this year, there were 3,393 IPS officers against a sanctioned strength of 4,720, a shortage of 1,327 officers. The gap was created when the Centre fixed the number of IPS and IAS recruits in 1990s for five consecutive years. This created a huge shortfall over the years. Simultaneously, new districts and posts have been created while the intake of officers remained stagnant. Also, nearly 30 IPS officers quit their jobs between 2008 and 2010 to move on to greener pastures in private companies in their mid-career.

To cope up with the situation, the Centre recently decided to go for special recruitment plan to induct IPS officers from young officers of paramilitary and state police forces. The examination for this will take place from 2012.