Qualifications To Become A Police Officer

I want to become IPS Officer so can you please tell me the qualifications required to become IPS Officer?

[Shaleen]

Indian Police Services IPS being an All Indian Services Officer works for both the Central and State Governments.
The IPS officer mainly takes care of the law and order, crime detection and prevention, traffic control, accident prevention and management etc.

Eligibility to be an IPS Officer

Graduation degree from an Indian University or an equivalent qualification

Those in the final year of a degree course can also appear in the Preliminary Examination taken every year by UPSC.

Age-

Candidate age must be 21 years on 1st August of the year of examination and must not have attained 30 years of age on that date.

The upper age limit will be relaxed by 3 years for OBC candidates and 5 years for SC/ST candidates.

The upper age limit is also relaxed in favour of Defense Services Personnel.

The candidate must be a citizen of India.

Process to become an IPS officer-

Apply for the Preliminary Exam of Civil Service of Union Public Service Commission

In the month of May or June the aspirants have to take the “Preliminary Exam”

This exam is just a qualifying exam for the Final exam and scores obtained in this exam are not added to the final result.

Those candidates who are declared qualified in the “Preliminary examination” are supposed to take the final exam (normally held in the month of October)

Once you are through, the final stage is the interview.

The aspirants are grilled in the interview to test their personality and mental ability.

Then the final list of the successful candidates is prepared and the candidates who have secured very well rank out of 400-450(approx.)

Top ranks are admitted to the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy as IPS probationers.

Here they undergo rigrous training of nearly one year in which all aspects of policing and administration

After completion of their training they are posted as per requirements of the Central and State Governments Police and Investigative Organisation.