Now, get free coaching for joining Punjab Police

Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 26

If you are interested in joining the Punjab Police, you can get free coaching and training facilities to become a cop in Ludhiana.

In a first, the Commissionerate Police will make the aspiring youth capable of joining the Punjab Police.

The development comes on the heels of the Punjab Police advertising 4,362 posts of constable in the district and armed cadre, for which the written and physical screening tests have been scheduled in the last week of September. The last recruitment in the 80,000-strong force was held in 2016.

Sharing details, the CP said all preparations to provide free coaching and training facilities have been completed and the interested candidates are required to walk in with an identity proof and two photographs.

“We expect that about 500 to 600 persons will turn up on the first day, for which we have arranged 12 coaches, including four exclusively for women, and 50 support staffers,” Agrawal disclosed.

Besides setting up 20 temporary bathrooms, special facilities have been put in place for the women candidates.

He said the aim of the initiative is to make the aspiring youth capable of joining the state police force and ensuring that they not only clear the written but also the physical screening test after imparting them requisite education and physical training through experts in the field.

“Special trainers have been appointed for aspiring youth to help them prepare for 1600-metre run, long jump and high jump,” the city police chief revealed, while adding that ADCP (Headquarters) Ashwini Gotyal has been made the nodal officer for the training.

As per the recruitment notice, a common online application form will go live in mid-July. The OMR-based multi-choice questions (MCQ) written test, consisting of 100 MCQs with one mark awarded for every correct answer, will be held on September 25 and 26. There will be negative marking and 0.25 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer.

The physical screening test (PST) will be conducted after the written test. Only those candidates who clear the written test, on the basis of cut-off, will be eligible for the PST, which will be qualifying in nature.

No marks will be awarded for the PST, but all candidates must clear the prescribed fitness trial/events. Merit will be drawn up purely on the basis of marks obtained by the candidates in the written test.

With minimum age of 18 and upper limit of 28 for general category candidates, the SC/ST/BC candidates will get relaxation of five years, ex-servicemen three years, plus the number of years of service in the Indian Defence forces, and serving state/Central Government employees shall be given relaxation in upper age limit by five years, but they should not have attained the age of 33 years as on January 1, 2021.

The minimum educational qualification is Class XII pass and Class X in case of ex-servicemen. Punjabi in matric is a must.

The male candidates, with a minimum of 5’7” height, will be subjected to a 1,600-metre race to be completed in 6.3 minutes in a single chance, a long jump of 3.8 metre in three chances and a high jump of 1.1 metre in three chances.

With a minimum height of 5’2”, the female candidates will have to clear 800-metre race in 4.3 minutes in a single chance, long jump of 3 metre in three chances, and high jump of 0.95 metre in three chances.

The ex-servicemen aspirants will get further relaxations in PST as well.

How to avail facility

Interested aspirants can reach the Police Lines grounds through gate number 3 between 5 am and 8 am, following which they will be required to fill a registration form with their photo identity proof. Mobile phones, other valuables and vehicles will not be allowed.

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