IPS Officer - Indian Police Service

WHAT DOES AN IPS OFFICER DO?
 
IPS officers in India work as senior police officers. IPS officers maintain public peace and order, prevent crime, investigate, collect intelligence, provide security to VIPs, and tackle terrorism and a range of other crimes. This is the career for you if you have been inspired by police detectives in Hollywood movies, TV series and detective novels and stories.

As an IPS officer, you can go on to work in and even lead the Indian intelligence agencies such as Research and Analysis Wing, Intelligence Bureau, Central Bureau of Investigation, Crime Investigation Department (CID).
 
WHAT IS THE CAREER TRACK OF AN IPS OFFICER?
 
As an IPS officer you may allotted to a state police department or to the central police department.
At the state level, you move from being Assistant Commissioner to Deputy Commissioner to Additional Commissioner to Joint Commissioner to Special Commissioner.

At the centre, you will move from being Additional Superintendent to Superintendant, Senior Superintendant, Deputy Inspector General, Inspector General, Additional Director General to Director General.  
 
HOW DOES ONE BECOME AN IPS OFFICER?

To become an IPS officer, one has to pass the Civil Services Exam. IPS aspirants can take the civil services exam after they complete their graduation. Graduates from various disciplines can become IPS officers. So if you aspire to become an IPS officer, study the subjects that interest you in class 11 and 12 and in your graduation so that you can enjoy your learning. There is no particular stream or subjects you need to choose in classes 11 and 12 and in graduation. The civil services exam is extremely competitive because only about 800 candidates out of the over five lakh applicants are successful.

WHAT ARE SOME SOFT REQUIREMENTS FOR THE JOB?

You may not get glamorous offices to go to as police offices in India are rarely more than four distempered walls built ages back with very basic furniture. You will preside over policemen who are poorly paid and overworked. If you can take the challenge of leading such staff and if the office environment doesn’t bother you much, you must join the police department and enforce law and order in the country.

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