Hyderabad: Telangana Police has been ranked ‘the best’ in the country among large states, followed by cops in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka by the India Justice Report (IJR) 2025, released on Tuesday.
Also, across the four pillars of justice – police, prisons, judiciary, and legal aid – the three southern states again came up trumps, with Karnataka on top, followed by AP and Telangana.
At first and second positions for police in 2024, a decade after bifurcation, Telangana and AP have steadily maintained top positions, outperforming others by filling capacity deficits across infrastructure, human resources and budgets, according to the report.
Congratulating the people and cops from the rank of home guard to DG for their efforts in prioritising safety of every individual residing in the state, DGP Jitender attributed the achievement to visible policing, quick response through police helpline 100, good crime detection rate and an increase in convictions, including in Pocso cases. He said there was a special focus on behaviour of personnel at every level, emphasis on cybercrime detection and refunds, zero tolerance to drugs etc.
“Telangana Police are proactive, responsible, accountable, and citizen-oriented, and this has put us at the top once again,” the DGP said.
As per the report, the state also fared much better than the national average in police stations with respect to population. The state has one police station for every 51,974 people in urban areas covering 10.6 sq km and 50,373 people in rural areas.
Telangana has also shown significant improvement in services provided by state citizen portals such as online FIR and complaint registration, status tracking, missing person reporting, traffic-related services, cybercrime reporting and antecedent verification, the report said. In terms of CCTVs at police stations as per Supreme Court directions, Telangana, which reported full CCTV coverage at police stations in 2022, declined to 89% in 2023.
The state has the highest vacancies (91%) among scientific staff allotted to forensic labs in the state, followed by Bihar (85%) and Uttarakhand (80%). The state also witnessed a reduction in vacancies at the constabulary level.
The police training budget saw a 64% cut from 2020-21 to 2021-22, as did its share in the entire police budget from 2.66% to 1.17%. Its utilisation also fell from 91.2% to 89.5%, matching with five other states and UTs (Puducherry, Nagaland, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Meghalaya) that achieved above 75% utilisation.
Telangana is also among nine states and UTs that still report women’s representation below 10%. The share of women in Telangana Police is 8.7% and women officers is 7.6% against the national average of 12.3% and 8%, respectively. The state has 0.5 women SIs and 4.9 women constables per police station. The MHA has recommended three women SIs and 10 women constables in each police station.
Also, across the four pillars of justice – police, prisons, judiciary, and legal aid – the three southern states again came up trumps, with Karnataka on top, followed by AP and Telangana.
At first and second positions for police in 2024, a decade after bifurcation, Telangana and AP have steadily maintained top positions, outperforming others by filling capacity deficits across infrastructure, human resources and budgets, according to the report.
Congratulating the people and cops from the rank of home guard to DG for their efforts in prioritising safety of every individual residing in the state, DGP Jitender attributed the achievement to visible policing, quick response through police helpline 100, good crime detection rate and an increase in convictions, including in Pocso cases. He said there was a special focus on behaviour of personnel at every level, emphasis on cybercrime detection and refunds, zero tolerance to drugs etc.
“Telangana Police are proactive, responsible, accountable, and citizen-oriented, and this has put us at the top once again,” the DGP said.
As per the report, the state also fared much better than the national average in police stations with respect to population. The state has one police station for every 51,974 people in urban areas covering 10.6 sq km and 50,373 people in rural areas.
Telangana has also shown significant improvement in services provided by state citizen portals such as online FIR and complaint registration, status tracking, missing person reporting, traffic-related services, cybercrime reporting and antecedent verification, the report said. In terms of CCTVs at police stations as per Supreme Court directions, Telangana, which reported full CCTV coverage at police stations in 2022, declined to 89% in 2023.
The state has the highest vacancies (91%) among scientific staff allotted to forensic labs in the state, followed by Bihar (85%) and Uttarakhand (80%). The state also witnessed a reduction in vacancies at the constabulary level.
The police training budget saw a 64% cut from 2020-21 to 2021-22, as did its share in the entire police budget from 2.66% to 1.17%. Its utilisation also fell from 91.2% to 89.5%, matching with five other states and UTs (Puducherry, Nagaland, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Meghalaya) that achieved above 75% utilisation.
Telangana is also among nine states and UTs that still report women’s representation below 10%. The share of women in Telangana Police is 8.7% and women officers is 7.6% against the national average of 12.3% and 8%, respectively. The state has 0.5 women SIs and 4.9 women constables per police station. The MHA has recommended three women SIs and 10 women constables in each police station.
