J&K Police Recruits 5,000 Constables 

Jammu: About 5,000 candidates, hailing from several districts of Jammu and Kashmir, got selected as constables in different wings of the state police, officials said on Sunday.

The selection list of the candidates selected for the post of constable in the J&K Police was released on Sunday. "As many as 4,956 candidates from the districts of the state have been selected through Transparent Recruitment Process (TRP)," a police spokesman said.

He said the written test of 27,844 candidates for the post of constable was held on October 8 at 61 examination centres across the state. In the first phase of recruitment, out of 1,18,217 applicants, about 96,000 candidates appeared for the physical endurance and physical standard tests held at different venues. Of them, 27,844 including 1,814 female candidates qualified for the written test held at all district headquarters of the state, the spokesman said.

PTI