About IPS exam

About IPS exam

What is IPS Exam? 

The Indian Police Service or IPS is one of the 3 All India Services of the Government of India. The IPS was formed in the year 1948. The cadre controlling authority for the IPS is the Ministry of Home Affairs. 

The Indian Police Service examination is a part of the Civil Services Examination which is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission each year.

 An IPS (Indian Police Service) officer carries out his/her responsibilities by safeguarding public. The IPS gives more importance to law and order, which, at the district level, is a collective responsibility of IPS and IAS officers; detecting and preventing crime; and traffic control and accident prevention and management.

In order to fulfill these functions efficiently, responsibly and systematically, the IPS service is divided into various functional departments such as Crime Branch, Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Home Guards, Traffic Bureau.

Eligibility Criteria 

1. Physical Criteria

The physical criteria for eligibility of the IPS officer is as follows: 

Minimum Height - Men - 165cm                   Women - 150cm

Relaxable minimum height is 160cm (men) and 145cm (women)

for candidates belonging to ST and races such as Gorkhas, Garhwalias, Assamese, Kumaonis, Nagaland Tribals, etc. 

Minimum Chest Girth - Men/Women: 84cm 79cm

Myopia (including cylinder) should not exceed minus 4.00D 

Hypermyopia (including cylinder) should not exceed plus 4.00D 

* The presence of Squint is a disqualification 

* Spectacles are permitted 

* Distant vision for better eye(Corrected Vision) should be 6/6 or 6/9 

* Distant vision for the worse eye(Uncorrected Vision) should be 6/12 or 6/9 

* Near vision should be J1 and J2 respectively

* High grade color vision is required and Binocular vision is needed 

2. Nationality:

 Nationality of a candidate must be either of the following: 

* Citizen of India 

* Subject of Nepal 

* Subject of Bhutan

 * A Tibetan refugee who came to India before January 1, 1962 for permanent settlement in India. 

* Migrant from any of the following countries for permanently settling in India: 

Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam

3. Educational Qualification:

 A candidate must hold a Bachelor's degree from any of the universities recognised by the UGC or possess an equivalent qualification. 

4. Age Limit : 

Candidate should fulfill the age limits mentioned below: 

* Minimum age 21 years 

* Maximum age 30 years as on 1st of August in the year of examination. 

Relax able age limit is as follows: 

* Up to max. 5 years for SC/ST candidates. 

* Up to max. 3 years for OBC candidates. 

* Up to max. 5 years for candidate from the State of Jammu & Kashmir 

* Up to max. 5 years for Defense Services personnel 

* Up to max. 5 years for Ex-servicemen including Commissioned officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least 5 years 

Military Service and have been released. 

* Up to max. 5 years for ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of 5 years of Military Service. 

* Up to max. 10 years for Blind, deaf-mute and Orthographically handicapped persons 

5. Number of attempts: 

The number of attempts restriction to appear for the exam is as follows: 

* For General category candidates: 4 attempts 

* For SC/ST candidates:  No restriction 

* For OBC candidates: 7 attempts 

Roles and Responsibilities 

* To fulfill duties based on border responsibilities, in the areas of maintenance of public peace and order, crime prevention, investigation, and finding, collecting of intelligence reports, taking care of VIP security, counter-terrorism, border paroling, railway policing, working towards preventing smuggling, drug trafficking, economic offences, corruption, playing a key role in disaster management, enforcement of socio-economic legislation, bio-diversity and defending of environmental laws etc. 

* Exchanging information with the Indian Intelligence Agencies like R&AW, IB, CID, CBI 

* Leading the Central Armed Police Force (CRPF) and being in touch with them on a regular basis

* Interact and coordinate with the Indian Revenue services (IRS), Indian Armed forces, primarily with the Indian Army 

* Serve the people of the country with full integrity, honesty and whole hearted dedication Select Other Exam