Over 1,700 constables Recruited By Assam Police with an aim to achieve zero vacancies

Guwahati: The Assam Police graduated its largest class ever on April 6 after 1,715 newly recruited unarmed constables, including 535 women, graduated from the Lachit Borphukan Police Academy.

According to them, the 178th batch of the Assam Police is the inaugural class of the academy, which replaced the earlier Police Training College, founded in 1947.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Director-General of Police (DGP) GP Singh received the salute from the new recruits at the passing out parade at the academy’s campus in Dergaon in the Golaghat district.

“You will face a lot of challenges in duty. With courage, integrity, honesty and accountability, you will have to serve the people and the nation,” Sarma told the new recruits. He said that at times, the distance between people and police grows due to misuse of the uniform, leading to hatred towards the force in the minds of the common man. 

“We need to remain a friend of the people. Beating up poor rickshaw pullers must be a thing of the past. The lathi, gun and courage of Assam Police must be used against criminals only,” he said. Sarma said the atmosphere in police stations was not very people-friendly due to decades of fights against insurgents, but that situation has changed now. 

“Assam Police is now leading a visionary fight against drugs. In the last two years, it registered 4,646 cases under the NDPS Act and arrested 7,723 people. Similarly, 203 cases of human trafficking were filed, 173 traffickers were nabbed and 358 people rescued,” he said. 

He noted that the government has formed five commando battalions in the previous two years and will eventually recruit 6,373 people for the forest department. DGP Singh said, “In the last two years, we have recruited 14,315 personnel, including this 1,715 persons, in different ranks of Assam Police. After this, another batch of 4,500 personnel will pass out in September-October.”

Assam Police, a rare force in the nation to have accomplished this accomplishment, will have no openings once these 19,000 personnel have been recruited, he said.

“In Assam Police, we never had a passing out parade of this magnitude. This is historically the largest batch,” Singh said.

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