Note : –
i) Total vacancies as stated above is purely provisional and subject to marginal changes.
ii) Selected candidates are liable to be posted to any of the units of West Bengal Police. They may also be
transferred from West Bengal Police (WBP) to Kolkata Police (KP) in the public interest if the
Government so desires.
iii) The applicants shall be required to indicate their choice of posts i.e. UB and AB in order of preference
after qualifying the Physical Measurement Test (PMT) & Physical Efficiency Test (PET). Such choice of
posts shall be deemed to be final and shall be taken into consideration for the purpose of
recommendation for appointment after selection.
Organization Name : West Bengal Police
Name Of The Post : Sub Inspector/Lady Sub Inspector
1. Unarmed Branch (SI) – 753 Posts
2. Unarmed Branch (Lady SI) – 150 Posts
3. Armed Branch (SI) – 185 Posts
Total vacancy : 1088 Posts
Application Fee : There will be an application fee of Rs. 270
Age Limit : The candidate must have attained the minimum age 20 to 27 Years.
Education Qualification : Bachelor’s degree
Pay Scale : Rs. 32,100 – 82,900/-
Important Dates
Opening date for Online registration : 22-01-2021
Closing date for Online registration : 20-02-2021
How To Apply
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Physically Handicapped candidates shall not be eligible to apply.
METHOD OF RECRUITMENT:-
The posts of Sub-Inspector/ Lady Sub-Inspector (UB) and Sub-Inspector (AB) in the West Bengal Police shall be filled up on basis of qualifying the Preliminary Examination which will act as screening examination followed by the Physical Measurement Test (PMT), Physical Efficiency Test (PET), Final Combined Competitive Examination and Personality Test to be conducted by the West Bengal Police Recruitment Board.
A. Preliminary Examination : (Full Marks – 200) :- Candidates provisionally considered as eligible will be called for a Preliminary Examination to be held in General Studies, Logical & analytical reasoning and
Arithmetic with full marks of 200 (100 marks in General Studies having 50 questions, 50 marks in Logical & Analytical reasoning having 25 questions and 50 marks in Arithmetic having 25 questions), the duration of the examination being 90 minutes. The preliminary examination will be a screening test for selection of candidates for the Physical Measurement Test and Physical Efficiency Test. The West Bengal Police Recruitment Board shall be the competent agency to prescribe minimum cutoff marks for each social category and posts taking into account the number of vacancies proposed to be filled up in each category and post.
The preliminary examination will be an OMR based MCQ type written examination. The question paper
will be set in two languages (English and Bengali).
The marks obtained by the candidate in preliminary examination shall not be counted for the purpose of
determining the final merit list.
Note : – There will be NEGATIVE marking for each incorrect answer in the preliminary examination. ¼th of the allotted marks for a particular question will be deducted for each incorrect answer.
B. Physical Measurement Test (PMT) & Physical Efficiency Test (PET) : –
The Physical Measurement Test (PMT) as specified under para 3(F) above relating to height, weight and
chest of the candidates qualified in the preliminary examination shall be taken followed by the Physical
Efficiency Test (PET) of the eligible candidates as specified under para 3(G). Qualified candidates in the
PMT only will be eligible to appear in the PET. The PMT & PET shall be conducted by the West Bengal
Police Recruitment Board at the venues selected by the Board for the purpose. Only qualified candidates of both PMT & PET shall be eligible to appear in the Final Combined Competitive Examination.
C. Final Combined Competitive Examination : (Full Marks – 200) :- The Final Combined Competitive
Examination will consist of three papers of conventional type of questions, namely
a) Paper-I :- General Studies and Arithmetic for 100 marks (50 marks for General Studies, and 25 marks for
Logical & Analytical reasoning and 25 marks for Arithmetic) of 2 (two) hours duration.
b) Paper-II :- English of 50 marks of 1 (one) hour duration.
c) Paper-III :- Bengali/Hindi/Urdu/Nepali of 50 marks of 1 (one) hour duration.
The written examination for all the above three papers of the Final Combined Competitive Examination
shall be held on the same day at selected centres to be decided by the West Bengal Police Recruitment
Board. The question paper for Paper – I (General Studies and Arithmetic) of Final Combined
Competitive Examination will be set in three languages (English, Bengali and Nepali). The candidate
may answer in any of these languages but all the answers must be in one and the same language. The
syllabus for final combined competitive examination shall be as mentioned herein after.
The West Bengal Police Recruitment Board shall have the discretion to fix qualifying marks in all or any
of the three papers and also in the aggregate of three papers in the final combined competitive
examination.
D. Personality Test : (Full Marks – 30) :- A limited number of the candidates selected merit-wise on the results of Final Combined Competitive Examination will be called on to appear at the Personality Test.
Candidates’ ability to speak in Bengali will be tested in the Personality Test. The minimum pass mark
for the personality test will be 08 (eight). The candidates who fail to secure minimum pass mark in the
personality test will be disqualified irrespective of the marks obtained by them in the Final Combined
Competitive Examination.
The final merit list of provisionally selected candidates shall be prepared on the basis of the total marks
obtained in the three papers of Final Combined Competitive Examination and the marks obtained in the
Personality test. The candidates who have failed to secure minimum pass mark in the personality test
will not be considered for selection.