Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board (UPPRPB)
UP Police Constable 2026: Result, PET Standards, Salary
Quick Information
| Post Name | Constable: Civil Police, PAC, Special Security Force, Mounted, Jail Warden |
| Total Vacancies | 32,679 |
| Salary | Pay Level 3 of the pay matrix, Rs 21,700 to Rs 69,100 (earlier pay band Rs 5,200 to Rs 20,200 with grade pay). Entry…View full salary details |
| Organization | Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board (UPPRPB) |
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Salary & Pay Scale
Pay Level 3 of the pay matrix, Rs 21,700 to Rs 69,100 (earlier pay band Rs 5,200 to Rs 20,200 with grade pay). Entry basic Rs 21,700 plus dearness allowance, house rent allowance by city class, uniform and kit allowance and travel allowance. In-hand at entry is roughly Rs 30,000 to Rs 38,000 per month depending on posting and current DA. Police line accommodation available at many postings.
Important Dates
| Start Date | 31 December 2025 |
| Last Date | 30 January 2026 |
| Exam Date | Written exam held 8, 9 and 10 June 2026 in two shifts daily (10:00 am to 12:00 pm and 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm) across 1,180 centres in all 75 districts |
Eligibility
| Age Limit | 18 to 25 years for male candidates and 18 to 28 years for female candidates in the last cycle, with 5 years relaxation for SC, ST and OBC candidates of Uttar Pradesh and further relaxation for other specified categories. Reckoning date set in the notification. |
| Education | Class 12 pass from a recognised board. This is a higher bar than the Class 10 required by several other state police constable recruitments. |
Selection Process
- 1**Stage 1: Written Examination** 150 objective questions
- 2300 marks
- 3120 minutes
- 4offline OMR
- 5Hindi and English. 2 marks per correct answer and NO negative marking (abolished by Cabinet decision in December 2025 under the UP Police Constable and Head Constable Service (Fourth Amendment) Rules 2025). Sections: General Knowledge
- 6General Hindi
- 7Numerical and Mental Ability
- 8Mental Aptitude with reasoning and IQ. Scores are normalised across the six shifts. This is the only stage counting towards merit. **Stage 2: Document Verification** Domicile
- 9category
- 10education and date of birth documents. **Stage 3: Physical Standard Test (PST)** Height and chest for men
- 11height and weight for women. Qualifying. **Stage 4: Physical Efficiency Test (PET)** Male 4.8 km in 25 minutes
- 12female 2.4 km in 14 minutes. Qualifying. Final merit is prepared from the normalised written score alone.
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UP Police Constable 2026: where the recruitment stands
UP Police Constable 2026 is a recruitment of 32,679 posts by the Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board, and the written exam is done. UPPRPB notified the vacancies on 31 December 2025, applications ran to 30 January 2026, and the written exam was held on 8, 9 and 10 June 2026 in two shifts a day across 1,180 centres in all 75 districts. As of 31 July 2026, candidates are waiting on the result.
At 32,679 posts this is one of the largest single recruitments in the country, and what follows the result is a sequence rather than a single event: document verification, then the Physical Standard Test, then the Physical Efficiency Test. Candidates who scored well and stopped training after the exam are the ones who struggle at that last stage, because the running standard is not casual.
One rule change deserves the top of this page, because a large share of pages covering this exam still get it wrong. There is no negative marking in the UP Police Constable written exam. The Uttar Pradesh government abolished it through a Cabinet decision in December 2025, given effect by the UP Police Constable and Head Constable Service (Fourth Amendment) Rules 2025. Pages telling you that half a mark is deducted per wrong answer are describing the old rules.
Timeline of the 2026 cycle
| Stage | Date |
|---|---|
| Notification released | 31 December 2025 |
| Applications open | 31 December 2025 |
| Last date to apply | 30 January 2026 |
| Admit card released | 5 June 2026 |
| Written exam | 8, 9 and 10 June 2026, two shifts daily |
| Result | Awaited as of 31 July 2026 |
| Document verification, PST and PET | After the result, dates to be announced |
The exam ran in shifts from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm and from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Because the paper was held across six shifts over three days, UPPRPB applies normalisation across shifts, so your final score is not simply your raw score. Two candidates with the same raw marks in different shifts can end up with different normalised scores depending on the relative difficulty of their papers.
Vacancy breakdown
The 32,679 posts cover several wings of the Uttar Pradesh Police rather than a single role.
| Post | What the role involves |
|---|---|
| Constable Civil Police | District policing, patrolling, law and order, station duty |
| Constable PAC (Provincial Armed Constabulary) | Armed reserve battalions, deployed for law and order and security duty |
| Constable Special Security Force | Protection of specified installations and establishments |
| Constable Mounted Police | Horse-mounted policing duty |
| Jail Warden | Prison department duty |
Allocation across wings happens after selection, based on merit, preference and vacancy position. Category reservation applies as per Uttar Pradesh government rules, with horizontal reservation for women, ex-servicemen, dependants of freedom fighters, and sportspersons on top of the vertical category split.
Eligibility
On domicile, candidates from outside Uttar Pradesh may apply, but reservation benefits and the associated relaxations apply only to candidates holding a UP category certificate. Outside candidates are treated as unreserved.
On age, the band for the last cycle was 18 to 25 years for male candidates and 18 to 28 years for female candidates, with relaxation of 5 years for SC, ST and OBC candidates of Uttar Pradesh, and further relaxation for other specified categories. The reckoning date is set in the notification.
On education, Class 12 pass from a recognised board is the requirement, which is a higher bar than the Class 10 required for constable posts in several other states.
Exam pattern
The written exam is a single objective paper.
| Element | Detail |
|---|---|
| Total questions | 150 |
| Total marks | 300 |
| Marks per question | 2 |
| Negative marking | None, abolished from the 2026 cycle |
| Duration | 120 minutes |
| Mode | Offline pen and paper, OMR based |
| Medium | Hindi and English |
The four sections are General Knowledge, General Hindi, Numerical and Mental Ability, and Mental Aptitude with reasoning and IQ, carrying broadly equal weight at around 37 or 38 questions each in recent cycles.
With no negative marking, leaving anything blank is a straightforward loss. 150 questions in 120 minutes gives you 48 seconds per question, so the sensible approach is to move fast through what you know, mark the rest, and reserve the final five minutes for filling every remaining bubble. Under the old rules that behaviour would have cost you marks. Under the current rules it can only help.
What the rule change means
The removal of negative marking is not a small administrative tweak, and it is worth understanding what it changes.
Under the old pattern, a wrong answer cost half a mark, so a candidate answering 30 uncertain questions and getting 10 right gained 20 marks and lost 10, netting 10. Under the current rules the same candidate gains 20 and loses nothing. Across a full paper this shifts scores upward for everyone who attempts fully, which in turn pushes the cutoff up. So the change does not make selection easier. It makes it harder for anyone who still attempts cautiously, because they are competing against a field that is now answering everything.
The rule change came through a Cabinet decision in December 2025 and was given effect by the UP Police Constable and Head Constable Service (Fourth Amendment) Rules 2025, which covered the Jail Warder recruitment as well.
Syllabus
The paper sits at Class 12 level across four sections, and the Uttar Pradesh portion of the general knowledge is where the marks are most reliably available.
General knowledge covers Indian history, the freedom movement, geography, polity and the Constitution, economy, general science, and current affairs of the past year, with a distinct Uttar Pradesh component: the state's districts and divisions, rivers, agriculture, industries, historical sites, tribes and festivals, police organisation, and current state schemes. UP-specific questions appear in every cycle and are the section a candidate can study to near-certainty.
General Hindi covers grammar, sandhi and samas, tatsam and tadbhav, synonyms and antonyms, idioms and proverbs, error correction, and comprehension of a passage. Candidates who studied in English medium routinely underestimate this section, and it carries the same weight as the others.
Numerical ability covers arithmetic at Class 10 level: number system, percentage, ratio and proportion, average, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, time and work, time and distance, mensuration, and elementary data interpretation through tables and graphs.
Mental ability, mental aptitude, IQ and reasoning cover logical reasoning, analogies, series, coding and decoding, blood relations, direction sense, ranking, syllogism, Venn diagrams, alphabet and word formation, and non-verbal reasoning through figure series and mirror images. This section also carries questions on public interest, law and order sensitivity, and communal harmony, which are specific to police recruitment and rarely covered in general competitive material.
Physical Standard Test
The PST checks height, chest for men, and weight for women. It is qualifying only.
| Category | Male height | Male chest (unexpanded to expanded) | Female height | Female minimum weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General, OBC and SC | 168 cm | 79 cm to 84 cm | 152 cm | 40 kg |
| Scheduled Tribe | 160 cm | 77 cm to 82 cm | 147 cm | 40 kg |
Every male candidate must show a chest expansion of at least 5 cm. A candidate who meets the 79 cm unexpanded figure but cannot expand to 84 cm fails the stage, so expansion is measured on its own terms and not treated as a formality.
Physical Efficiency Test
The PET is a single running event, and it is the one that eliminates the most people.
| Candidates | Distance | Time limit |
|---|---|---|
| Male | 4.8 km | 25 minutes |
| Female | 2.4 km | 14 minutes |
Work out what the male standard demands. 4.8 km in 25 minutes is a pace of about 5 minutes 12 seconds per kilometre, held for nearly five kilometres. That is not a sprint, but it is a sustained running pace that a person who does not run cannot produce on the day, whatever their general fitness. The female standard of 2.4 km in 14 minutes works out to about 5 minutes 50 seconds per kilometre over a shorter distance.
Both are pass or fail with no partial credit and no marks carried into the merit list. Candidates who fail to finish within the time are out of the recruitment regardless of their written score.
Training for a 4.8 km time trial means building an aerobic base of 25 to 40 km a week over three to four months, with one weekly interval session at target pace and one longer run. A candidate starting from no running background needs months, not weeks, which is why the gap between the written exam and the PET is the window to use rather than to rest in.
Selection process
| Stage | What it decides |
|---|---|
| Written examination | Merit. This is the only stage that scores you |
| Document verification | Eligibility, category, domicile and education |
| Physical Standard Test | Qualifying, on height, chest and weight |
| Physical Efficiency Test | Qualifying, on the run |
Final merit rests on the normalised written score alone. The physical stages are gates, not scoring events. That structure rewards a candidate who prepares the paper seriously and clears the physical standards comfortably, rather than one who is exceptionally fit and average on paper.
Salary of a UP Police Constable
The post sits at Pay Level 3 of the pay matrix, with a range of Rs 21,700 to Rs 69,100. Under the older pay band structure this corresponded to Rs 5,200 to Rs 20,200 with grade pay.
At entry, basic pay is Rs 21,700 a month. Dearness allowance applies at the prevailing rate, house rent allowance depends on the classification of the posting city, and there are police allowances covering uniform and kit, alongside travel allowance. Accommodation in police lines is available at many postings.
In practice, in-hand pay for a new constable lands in the region of Rs 30,000 to Rs 38,000 a month depending on posting and the current DA rate, before deductions for pension contribution and insurance. Pay rises with annual increments and each DA revision, and promotion to Head Constable moves you to the next level.
Beyond cash, the post carries medical facilities, leave entitlement, and pension benefits under the rules applicable to new recruits.
Career progression
| Rank | Route |
|---|---|
| Constable | Direct entry |
| Head Constable | Departmental promotion and departmental exam |
| Sub-Inspector | Promotion, and separately through direct UPPRPB Sub-Inspector recruitment |
| Inspector | Promotion on seniority and service record |
| Deputy Superintendent of Police | Promotion, and through the UPPSC state services exam |
A serving constable who holds a graduate degree and remains within the age band can appear for the direct Sub-Inspector recruitment, which is a faster route up than waiting for departmental promotion. Constables planning a long career often work towards that exam in their early years of service.
What to do while the result is awaited
The gap between a written exam and the physical stages is the most wasted period in police recruitment, and using it well is the cheapest advantage available.
Start running now if you have not been. The PET follows document verification, and once the result lands the timeline moves quickly. Build to a comfortable 4.8 km well under 25 minutes so that a bad day still clears the bar.
Get your documents in order. Domicile certificate, category certificate in the UP format with a current non-creamy layer certificate for OBC candidates, Class 10 and 12 certificates, and any horizontal reservation proof. Document verification rejections on paperwork are common and entirely avoidable.
Check your height and chest against the standard honestly, since finding out at the PST venue that you fall a centimetre short is the worst possible time.
If the result does not go your way, the preparation transfers. The written syllabus overlaps heavily with other state police recruitments, including MP Police Constable and Bihar Police Constable, where only the state-specific general knowledge changes.
How to apply in the next cycle
Applications are filed only on uppbpb.gov.in.
- Register with a valid mobile number and email, both of which UPPRPB uses for admit card and stage communication.
- Fill in personal, educational, and category details exactly as they appear on your certificates.
- Upload photograph and signature in the specified dimensions and file size.
- Pay the application fee online.
- Submit and save the registration number and the application PDF.
- Use the correction window if one is provided, then download the admit card when released.
Note that the last window ran for a month from 31 December 2025 to 30 January 2026, so it is not a window that rewards waiting.
Documents you will need
- Class 10 certificate as proof of date of birth.
- Class 12 mark sheet and certificate.
- Uttar Pradesh domicile certificate.
- Category certificate in the UP format, with a current non-creamy layer certificate for OBC candidates.
- Horizontal reservation documents for women, ex-servicemen, sportspersons, or dependants of freedom fighters where claimed.
- Photograph, signature, and a photo identity document matching the application.
Frequently asked questions
Is there negative marking in the UP Police Constable exam 2026? No. The Uttar Pradesh government abolished negative marking through a Cabinet decision in December 2025, given effect by the UP Police Constable and Head Constable Service (Fourth Amendment) Rules 2025, which also covered Jail Warder recruitment. Each of the 150 questions carries 2 marks and nothing is deducted for a wrong answer, so every question should be attempted. Pages still showing a 0.5 mark penalty describe the old rules.
When will the UP Police Constable result 2026 be declared? UPPRPB had not declared the result as of 31 July 2026. The written exam was held on 8, 9 and 10 June 2026 and the result will be published on uppbpb.gov.in, after which document verification, the Physical Standard Test and the Physical Efficiency Test follow. Because the exam ran across six shifts, scores are normalised before the result.
How many vacancies are in UP Police Constable 2026? There are 32,679 posts, covering Constable Civil Police, PAC, Special Security Force, Mounted Police and Jail Warden. UPPRPB notified them on 31 December 2025. Allocation across wings happens after selection on the basis of merit, preference and vacancy position.
What is the PET running standard for UP Police Constable? Male candidates must run 4.8 km in 25 minutes and female candidates 2.4 km in 14 minutes. The male standard is a pace of roughly 5 minutes 12 seconds per kilometre sustained for nearly five kilometres. The PET is qualifying, so it adds no marks, but failing to finish within the time removes you from the recruitment regardless of your written score.
What is the height requirement for UP Police Constable? Male candidates in the General, OBC and SC categories need 168 cm with a chest of 79 cm unexpanded and 84 cm expanded, while Scheduled Tribe male candidates need 160 cm with a chest of 77 cm to 82 cm. Female candidates need 152 cm in the General, OBC and SC categories and 147 cm for Scheduled Tribes, with a minimum weight of 40 kg. Every male candidate must show a chest expansion of at least 5 cm.
What is the salary of a UP Police Constable? The post is at Pay Level 3 with a pay matrix range of Rs 21,700 to Rs 69,100. Entry basic pay is Rs 21,700, and with dearness allowance, house rent allowance and police allowances the in-hand figure is roughly Rs 30,000 to Rs 38,000 a month depending on posting city and the current DA rate, with police line accommodation available at many postings.
What is the exam pattern for UP Police Constable 2026? The written exam has 150 objective questions for 300 marks in 120 minutes, offline on OMR, in Hindi and English, with 2 marks per correct answer and no negative marking. The four sections are General Knowledge, General Hindi, Numerical and Mental Ability, and Mental Aptitude with reasoning and IQ, at broadly equal weight.
What is the educational qualification for UP Police Constable? Class 12 pass from a recognised board is required. This is a higher bar than several other state police constable recruitments, which accept Class 10, so candidates comparing options across states should check this before applying.
What is normalisation in the UP Police Constable exam? The exam ran in two shifts a day across three days, so six different question papers were used. UPPRPB applies a normalisation formula to adjust for differences in difficulty between shifts, which means your final score can differ from your raw score. Two candidates with identical raw marks in different shifts may receive different normalised scores.
Can candidates from other states apply for UP Police Constable? Yes, candidates from outside Uttar Pradesh can apply, but they are treated as unreserved and receive no reservation benefit or associated age relaxation, since those require a Uttar Pradesh category certificate. The written syllabus also carries substantial Uttar Pradesh general knowledge, which favours candidates from the state.
What happens after the UP Police Constable written result? Shortlisted candidates go to document verification, where domicile, category, education and date of birth documents are checked, then to the Physical Standard Test for height, chest and weight, then to the Physical Efficiency Test for the run. All three stages are qualifying. The final merit list is prepared from the normalised written exam score alone.