Andhra Pradesh Police

Checked 19 September 2026 on slprb.ap.gov.in. The board issued six recruitment notifications on 16 September 2026 and a seventh on 17 September, under G.O.Ms.No.81 of the Finance Department dated 22 August 2026 and its amendment memo of 11 September, for 2,197 posts in all: Rc.No.81/SLPRB/Rect.1/2026 for 378 Sub-Inspectors — 253 SCT SI (Civil), 116 SCT Reserve SI (AR) and 9 SI (Men) in the Special Protection Force; Rc.No.91/SLPRB/Rect.2/2026 for 1,156 posts — 542 SCT Constable (Civil), 285 SCT Constable (AR), 158 Firemen in the State Disaster Response and Fire Services and 171 Warders (150 men, 21 women) in Prisons; Rc.No.92 for 200 Constables (Communications); Rc.No.93 for 198 Constable Drivers and 15 Mechanics in the Police Transport Organisation; Rc.No.82 for 50 SI (Communications) and 10 SI (PTO); Rc.No.83 for 43 Scientific Assistants in the Forensic Science Laboratory; and Rc.No.94 of 17 September for 147 Driver Operators in the Fire Services. Every notification says the dates for the online application and the preliminary written test will be announced separately by press release, so no window was open at the date checked. The previous cycles, both notified on 28 November 2022, are complete: the Sub-Inspector selection list was published in December 2023 and the Constable list in August 2025.

The board runs Sub-Inspector and Constable as separate notifications with separate post codes — Civil posts that serve in the districts, and armed-reserve posts in the APSP battalions that train and deploy as units. The distinction matters at every stage: the Civil posts reserve a third of vacancies for women and treat the physical test as pass-or-fail, while the APSP posts are for men only and score the physical test into the final total.

Both routes screen with a preliminary written test whose marks are then discarded. What follows is a second, separate application with certificates, the physical tests, and a final written examination that alone — or together with the physical score for armed posts — builds the merit list. The board publishes cut-offs by category and unit after each selection, which makes the last cycle unusually legible: a candidate can see exactly what mark selected in their own zone.

The agency-area relaxation applies to Scheduled Tribe candidates of the scheduled areas of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari and West Godavari, on production of a residence certificate. Seventy-five per cent of the Civil Constable vacancies in scheduled areas are reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates domiciled there. The medical standard is exacting: 6/6 distant vision in both eyes without correction, full field of vision, and a list of disqualifying conditions that includes colour blindness, squint, knock-knees, flat feet and varicose veins.

For the armed posts the three events are graded out of 100 — the 1600 metres for 40, the 100 metres for 30 and the long jump for 30 — on a table that runs from full marks for a run under four minutes down to 15 marks for a run just inside the eight-minute limit. That score is a third of a Reserve Sub-Inspector’s total and half of an APSP Constable’s, which makes the running track a place where those recruitments are actually won rather than merely survived.

Checked 19 September 2026. The 2026 vacancies, age bands, fees and scheme are from the seven notifications of 16 and 17 September 2026 on the board’s recruitments page and its press notes of the same dates; the eligibility tables, physical standards and marking rule that follow are from the two 2022 notifications and their amendments, which the 2026 notifications carry forward, with the timeline from the board’s press notes and selection releases. The board publishes no previous-year question papers — after each examination it releases the answer key and, for a few days, candidates’ scanned OMR sheets, but not the question paper itself.