5 lakh posts vacant in police forces

In Tamil Nadu, which has a sanctioned strength of 1,35,830 posts in its police force, around 16,700 posts are lying vacant. According to Home Ministry statistics, there are 22,63,222 sanctioned posts in police forces of all states in the country, of which 17,61,200 are occupied while a whopping 5,02,022 posts are lying vacant. The highest 1.80 lakh posts are lying vacant in Uttar Pradesh where the sanctioned strength of police force is 3,64,200 personnel. 

Meanwhile, according to a report of the Bureau of Police Research and Development, there are 188 police stations in the country which have no vehicle, 402 police stations have no telephone connections, 134 police stations do not have wireless sets and 65 have neither a telephone nor a wireless set. There is a total of 15,555 police stations in the country, of which 10,014 are in rural areas and the rest are in urban areas. There are only 10.13 vehicles for 100 policemen at the national level with 1,75,358 vehicles in all available for law enforcement.