As many as 5.43 lakh police posts were vacant across India as on January 1, 2018, with UP accounting for the highest number of vacancies at 1.29 lakh and Nagaland being the only state where actual strength of police personnel exceeded the sanctioned strength. As per the latest BPRD report regarding data on police organisations, only 19,41,473 posts were occupied out of the sanctioned strength of 24,84,170.
