States and UTs across India have deficit of state police forces: Report

A new report by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) has revealed that almost all states and union territories (UTs) across India have a deficit of state police forces. The report revealed Nagaland as the only exception with an actual strength of 28,113, against a sanctioned strength of 26,738 state police forces.

New Delhi:Almost all states and union territories (UTs) across India have a deficit of state police forces, with only Nagaland being an exception which has registered a surplus of 1375 police officials.

Statistics revealed by Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD), a department under Home Ministry highlighted in a report "Data on Police Organisations" that against a sanctioned strength of 26,738 state police forces, Nagaland has actual strength of 28,113.

The state police forces include civil police, district armed reserved police, state armed police and state IRB.

Significantly, almost all state and UTs also registered a marginal presence of women police forces against the total actual strength.

Statistics revealed that Andhra Pradesh has 59,553 state police forces against a sanctioned strength of 73,894 with a deficit of 14,341 police forces.

With a huge deficit of 1,11,865 state police forces, Uttar Pradesh is leading the list of such states which urgently required attention of the state government.

Against the sanctioned strength of 4,15,315, Uttar Pradesh has 3,03,450 actual police forces to maintain the law and order situation of the state.

Uttar Pradesh is being followed by the West Bengal government with a deficit of 55,294 police forces. As per BPRD statistics, the state has 97,775 actual police force against its sanctioned strength of 1,53, 069.

Bihar too has registered a huge deficit of 47,099 police forces with 91,862 actual strength against its sanctioned strength of 1,38,961.

The deficit of police forces in Maharastra is 28,550 against the sanctioned strength of 2,43,326. The state has 2,14,776 actual police forces.

Interestingly, Union Territory of Lakshadweep has an actual strength of 267 police forces against a sanctioned strength of 321.

Maharastra and Bihar have the maximum number of women police amongst all other states.

As per statistics, Maharastra has 26,890 women police and Bihar has 23,245.