What is the IPS Exam?
The Indian Police Service (IPS) is one of the governments of India’s three All-India Services. The IPS was established in 1948. The Ministry of Home Affairs is the IPS’ cadre controlling authority. Every year, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts the Civil Services Examination (CSE), which includes the Indian Police Service examination.
· The IPS service is broken down into different functional areas such as Crime Branch, Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Home Guards, and Traffic Bureau to carry out these functions efficiently, responsibly, and systematically.
· The Civil Services Examination (CSE), which includes more than 20 services, will be used to select the Indian Police Service (IPS). For all services, the application and selection processes are the same. Annually, roughly eight lakh candidates apply for the IPS exam.
What is the eligibility for an IPS applicant?
· The minimum height for Men is 165cm while for women it is 150cm.
· For eligible candidates to ST and racial groups such as Gorkhas, Garhwalias, Assamese, Kumaonis, Nagaland Tribals, and others, a relaxed minimum height of 160cm (men) and 145cm (women) is allowed.
· Minimum Chest Girth in Men/Women should be 84cm 79cm.
· As of August 1st, of the examination year, a candidate must be at least 21 years old and no more than 32 years old.
· The presence of a squint is an automatic disqualifier.
· Spectacles are allowed. For a better eye (Corrected Vision), distant vision should be 6/6 or 6/9.
· The worst eye’s distant Innovision (uncorrected vision) should be 6/12 or 6/9.
· J1 and J2 should be used for near vision. Binocular vision and high-grade color vision are required.
What are the roles and responsibilities of an IPS Officer?
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· An IPS (Indian Police Service) officer fulfills his or her duties by ensuring public safety.
· An IPS (Indian Police Service) officer fulfills his or her duties by ensuring public safety. IPS Officers work for both the state and the federal government.
· Their primary responsibility is to maintain public order. To perform tasks predicated on frontier obligations in the areas of public peace and order, crime prevention, investigation, and detection, intelligence gathering, VIP security, counter-terrorism, border patrolling, railway policing, working to prevent smuggling, drug trafficking, economic crimes, and corruption, disaster management, enforcement of socio-economic legislation, bio-diversity, and defending of environmental laws, etc.
· Information exchange with Indian intelligence agencies such as R&AW, IB, CID, and CBI Leading the Central Armed Police Force (CRPF) and maintaining regular contact with them.
· Interact and coordinate with the Indian Revenue Service (IRS), the Indian Armed Forces (primarily the Indian Army), and other government agencies. Serve the citizens of the nation with complete honesty, integrity, and commitment.
· Their primary responsibility is to guide and direct Indian intelligence agencies such as the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), as well as Indian Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, Civil and Armed Police Forces in all states and union territories.
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