Lucknow, Jan 1,2023: The Uttar Pradesh Police department now has 234 engineers and at least 105 computer programmers who have been selected for the posts of sub-inspectors (confidential and vigilance) and assistant sub-inspectors (ministerial, vigilance and accounts).

According to an official release from the Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotional Board, the recruitments were made to 155 SI, and 644 ASI (ministerial) and 358 ASI (accounts) posts.

As many as 234 candidates with Bachelor of Engineering (BE) or Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree and 105 with Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) degree have been selected for these posts.

Among other selected candidates, 372 are commerce graduates, 288 are science graduates and 155 are arts graduates.

The press release further said that 601 candidates are aged 25 years or below, 485 are 30 years or below and 52 belong to the 30-33 age group.

Only 19 candidates (ex-serviceman category) are above 33 years.

The list includes 1,099 candidates from different districts of Uttar Pradesh while 58 others are from six states — Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand.

A senior police official said 66,832 aspirants had taken part in the recruitment process for which written examinations were conducted in two shifts each on December 4 and 5.