Overview
What Uttar Pradesh Police is, and who it suits
The 2025 constable advertisement lists its posts by cadre: 10,469 constables of the civil police for men and women, 15,131 constables of the PAC and armed police for men, 1,341 for the special security force, 2,282 women constables for the Lucknow, Badaun and Gorakhpur battalions, 71 mounted police constables, and 3,279 and 106 jail warders for men and women — 32,679 at level 3, ₹21,700 to ₹69,100. A candidate ranks the posts at application and is allotted by merit in that order. Applications ran from 31 December 2025 to 30 January 2026 at ₹500, or ₹400 for SC and ST, after a one-time registration on the board’s portal.
The written test of 8, 9 and 10 June 2026 ran in six shifts, and the board’s notice of 31 July 2026 normalised the marks, applied minimum qualifying marks of 30 per cent for the unreserved, 25 for EWS and OBC and 20 for SC and ST, and called about 2.33 times the posts — 76,184 candidates — for document verification and the physical standard test at normalised cut-offs of 258.04 unreserved, 251.63 OBC, 247.93 EWS, 239.34 SC and 220.11 ST, a little lower for women, with every qualified home guard, freedom fighter’s dependant and ex-serviceman called. Verification and measurement began on 17 August; the run was proposed for September, and normalised marks are to be shown after the final result.
What defines the board’s recruitments
- Order of preference — one application covers every cadre in the advertisement; the candidate’s ranking of the posts decides the allotment.
- Normalisation across shifts — under the board’s notice of 18 December 2023; the 2023 constable re-examination ran in ten shifts, the 2025 test in six, the 2025 sub-inspector test in four.
- Physical stages qualify — height, chest and weight to the standard, then the run within time; neither adds marks. The final list is the normalised written marks with reservation.
- Ties — preferential qualification — NIELIT O-level, two years’ Territorial Army service or an NCC B certificate — then the older candidate, then alphabetical order.
The 2023 constable round and the leak
Advertised on 23 December 2023 for 60,244 posts with 48 lakh applicants, its written test of 17 and 18 February 2024 was cancelled by the government on 24 February after the second-shift papers of both days circulated before the sitting. The re-examination of 23, 24, 25, 30 and 31 August 2024 ran in ten shifts; the notice of 21 November 2024 called 1,74,316 for verification at a normalised cut-off of 214.05 for the unreserved; the physical stages ran from December to February; and the final result of 13 March 2025 filled the 60,244 posts, 12,048 of them with women. The Special Task Force’s case named the same mastermind as the RO/ARO leak, and a writ against the final key and result was before the High Court in August 2026.
