Women strength in police forces up 53% in 5 years

The strength of women personnel in the police force has gone up by almost 53% between the year 2013 and 2018 and by 20.95% in 2017 alone. While the total sanctioned strength of state police forces was 24.84 lakh as on 1.1.2018, their actual strength was 19.41 lakh, leaving 5.43 lakh vacancies at various levels.

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