MP: Police Adopts ‘Lottery System’ for Constable Recruitment

Police department authorities in the Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh conducted a ‘lottery’ to assign recently recruited constables to different police stations throughout the region, which is an excellent initiative to showcase transparency.

A total of 57 police officers—41 men and 16 women—were assigned to various police stations on Friday.

Superintendent of Police (SP) Amit Sanghi told ANI, “We had 57 newly recruited constables, including males and females, from different Police Training Academies in our district to be posted in different police stations according to the vacancies. The constables were called to the police control room in the district, and they picked slips of police stations on their own.”

“The initiative has been taken to give them (constables) a message that postings have been done transparently and not based on any kind of recommendations. They were also advised that if they perform better in the future, they will get better postings,” he added.

The police constables appeared pleased with their postings and praised SP Sanghi’s efforts.

“A unique and commendable initiative was taken by the SP. Usually, people put in jack and recommendations for posting in police stations, but the Superintendent of Police did not do so. Without any prior approval and without discrimination, a token slip was made, and maintaining transparency from everyone, one slip each was issued, according to which the police station was allotted to us,” the constables said.

“We have taken out our slips and posted ourselves in the police station. We all are very happy,” they said.

They went on to say that the entire nation, not just Madhya Pradesh, ought to adopt this ‘lottery system’ kind of initiative.