Uttar Pradesh Police is all set to get additional 49,568 jawans to maintain law and order as the UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board on Monday declared the results of UP Police Constable Recruitment Exam, 2019.
Gulshan Kumar of Ghazipur topped the exam among men and Antima Singh of Hardoi topped among the women recruits.
In a joint press conference, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi and DG (Recruitment Board) Rajkumar Vishwakarma announced the results of 49,568 selected constables. The results will be updated on the website of Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board soon.
Of the total selected recruits, 31,360 (25,394 males and 5,966 females) will join the civil police and 18,208 the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC).
The written examination was conducted on January 27-28, 2019 at various centres spread across the state and its result was released in November, 2019.
“Of the 23 lakh candidates, around 1.25 lakh cleared the written exam and were called for inspection of their academic records and physical standard test. Of these, 49,568 cleared the final round of physical test and document verification,” Vishwakarma said.
The officer said that with these recruitment, 1.37 lakh constables have been recruited in UP Police since April 2017, which include 1,657 posts filled through dependants quota.
Now the new recruits will undergo training before joining the world’s biggest police force.