2012 - Bureau of Police Research and Development

CHAPTER 1BASIC POLICE DATAState Wise Basic Police Data• Police – Population Ratio• Police – Area Ratio(Number of Policemen per 100 Sq. Kms.)• Number of Vehicles per 100 PolicemenThis chapter attempts to provide youwith the collated data on basic police issues inthe country, which you may not find throughnormal published sources. The information inthis chapter is as on 01.01.2012 along with theanalysis thereof for eleven years from 2001to 2011 for alternate years. The data coversall the States and the Union Territories of thecountry.The basic police data gives the informationon Sanctioned Strength of Civil & ArmedPolice, Population per Policeman i.e. Police -Population Ratio, Area per Policeman, Numberof Police Zones, Ranges, Districts, Circles, PoliceStations, Police Posts and Number of ArmedPolice Battalions in the country.An analysis of national data on police forthe period of last eleven years for alternateyears is given in Table-A which gives percentagewise changes with reference to the precedingyear and also with reference to eleven yearsperiod from 2001 to 2011. Thus the percentagechange shall be for 2 years block.Police-Population RatioIt shows that percentage wise growth inthe sanctioned police strength in our countryhas shown decrease of 42.27% whereas thegrowth in population was 16.18% during thelast eleven years. As a result thereof, it is seenthat 695 people were being looked after byone constable in the year 2001, which hasdecreased to 568 people required to be lookedafter by one constable in the year 2011 despitemany fold increase in challenges faced by policeforces in the country and significant increase inthe incidence of terrorism, communal violence,naxalism, security threats etc.Year 2001 2011 % increaseTotal population(In crores) 103.79 120.58 16.18(in millions) 1037.95 1205.87Total Police Strength(In lakhs) 14.93 21.24 42.27(in millions) 1.49 2.12The actual availability of Policemen getsfurther reduced owing to vacancies runningupto 25.39% as on 1.1.2012. During this elevenyear period the State Armed Police Forces haveshown an increase of 24.20% from 3.47 lakhsi.e (0.347 million) in the year 2001 to 4.31 lakhsi.e (0.431 million) in the year 2011. Details ofPopulation per Policeman for the Sanctionedas well as the Actual Police Strength are shownin the Table – 1.3. (Page No.15)Area of Supervision (from 47.16 policemenper 100 Sq. Km. in 2001 to 67.10 Policemenin 2011)The Police - Area Ratio (number ofpolicemen per 100 sq. kms.) has increased by42.28% during eleven years period of 2001 to2011. At national level, as on 01.01.2012, wehad an average of one constable for every 1.49sq. kms. of our geographical area. In the lesspopulous states like Arunachal Pradesh, forthe Sanctioned Strength this ratio was highestat 1:7.27 sq. kms. followed by Rajasthan with1:4.07 sq. kms. and in the densely populatedStates/UTs it was lowest in Chandigarh at1:0.01 sq. kms followed by Delhi at 1:0.02sq. kms. Details of Police-Area Ratio forsanctioned and Actual Police Strength aregiven in Table – 1.3. (Page No. 15)1