Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 11
Hours after six persons were arrested for their suspected involvement in cheating during the written test held for Sub-Inspectors on August 22, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today directed the DGP to intensify the crackdown on leakage of exam papers, cheating, copying, etc.
The directives come ahead of the commencement of written exams for Head Constables (Investigation cadre), to be conducted from September 12-19 for 75,544 applicants who have applied for 787 vacancies, followed by exams for Constables (District amp; Armed cadres) on September 25-26 for which 4,70,775 candidates have applied for 4,358 posts.
’25K out of cop net’
- AAP’s Harpal Singh Cheema alleged that law and order was deteriorating and the government, which had not taken stern action against fugitives, was responsible for the rising crime rate
- He said the number of kidnappings and subsequent ransom demands was increasing
- He said nearly 25,000 fugitives were currently out of police custody
Exams begin today
- Written exams for Head Constables (Investigation cadre) will be conducted from Sept 12-19 for 75,544 applicants who have applied for 787 vacancies
- The exams for Constables (District amp; Armed cadres) will be held on Sept 25-26 for which 4,70,775 candidates have applied for 4,358 posts
- Another recruitment drive will take place in Oct for appointing 2,600 uniformed specialists
In a first-of-its-kind move by any state police, another recruitment drive will take place in October for appointing 2,600 uniformed specialists in the Punjab Police Department.
The Chief Minister asked DGP Dinkar Gupta to further intensify the security measures at the examination centres in view of reported attempts by recruitment fraudsters and scamsters to sabotage and subvert the examination process. The Punjab Police mega recruitment drive is being conducted through six recruitment boards, each constituted under an ADGP-rank officer.
So far, written test for the posts of Sub-Inspectors (District, Armed, Intelligence amp; Investigation cadres) and Constables of the Intelligence and Investigation cadre had been conducted successfully. Among the 1,10,524 candidates who had applied for the 560 Sub-Inspector vacancies, 7,589 candidates were graduates in information technology, computer science, software engineering, etc. and 1,714 candidates were postgraduates. As many as 80,826 male candidates and 29,698 female candidates had applied for the posts.
6 held in police recruitment scam
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