All three communities, SCs, STs and OBCs, are poorly represented in Delhi – the only Union Territory included in the study.
New Delhi: Disadvantaged communities such as the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes(STs), Other Backwards Castes (OBCs) as well as women are under-represented in the country’s police force, a study has revealed.
According to the Common Cause-CSDS Lokniti’s ‘Status of Policing in India Report 2019’, while SCs are under-represented in 19 out of 21 state police forces studied in proportion to their share of reserved postings, STs and OBCs are inadequately represented in 16 and 11 states, respectively.
The report arrives at the figure by taking the actual percentage of SCs/STs/OBCs (2012-2016 average) in proportion to the reserved percentage of the respective communities in the state police force.
All three communities are poorly represented in Delhi – the only Union Territory included in the study.
In the case of women, their "representation…in the police force is even worse, with only 7.3 per cent women police personnel at the national level in 2016. None of the states have been able to meet the 33 per cent benchmark set out by the MHA, with Tamil Nadu having the highest representation of women at 12.9 per cent in 2016," the report reads.
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