A recent study found that over 30% of police personnel committed suicide due to the stress from extramarital affairs. Published in the Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research on 30th September, the researchers did a detailed study on Police personnel who committed suicide.
The material for study consisted of 20 suicide cases examined in the state of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. The researchers noted that as many as 15 cases pertained to the state of Himachal Pradesh and 5 cases were from Haryana.
They also observed that 5 cases out of 20 suicides were pertaining to police gazetted officers and 15 cases to other ranks i.e., from Constable to Inspector. This data relates to 17 males and 3 females.
“Since the number of cases N=20 is a limited data for this preliminary study, hence could not be bifurcated separately for gazetted and other ranks and among males and females for a detailed separate investigation,” the researchers noted.
Recently, a constable of Haryana Armed Police (HAP) died after hanging himself from a ceiling fan at the Police Lines in Jagadhri. As per official data of the Government Over 940 police personnel committed suicide in 5 years till December 2018. This includes personnel of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs). As many as 54 daily police personnel ended their lives in the last 4 years. Between 2010-2014, 166 policemen in Tamil Nadu and 161 in Maharashtra and 61 in Kerala committed suicide. As per researchers, the observations from the dead bodies and at the place of occurrence along with inquiries from people present at the places of occurrence and police reports were consulted for getting detailed information’s analysed in the present paper.
“The analysis of the data revealed that suicide due to illness was 5%, failure in love 10%, extramarital relations 30%, not getting a promotion on-time 20%, scolded by officers 10%, cruelty 15%, not getting leave in time 5%, property dispute at home 5%,” they wrote.