JK Police SI case studies

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The Jammu and Kashmir Police Sub-Inspector examination is the recruitment route into the supervisory rank of the J&K Police, the officer who runs a police station's day-to-day policing, supervises constables, handles case files and liaises with the public and magistrates. Recruitment is conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police Recruitment Board (JKPRB), which advertises vacancies, publishes eligibility conditions and issues the syllabus and scheme for each cycle. The JK Police SI case studies are 5 cases and about 4,795 words.

The roster that will not fit: manpower and overtime arithmetic before a festival bandobast

You are the Station House Officer of a rural police station in Jammu province with 46 sanctioned constable posts. On 1 October, six posts are vacant, four constables are on long medical leave, and two are attached to the district headquarters for a special investigation.

832 words, about 4 min 2

Four beats, four modes: solving the deployment grid and then breaking it

You are preparing the night deployment order for a four-constable patrol in a market area with four beats: Bus Stand, Hospital Road, Old Market and Canal Bridge. Each constable takes exactly one beat and uses exactly one mode of movement - Bolero, motorcycle, bicycle or on foot - and no two share a beat or a mode.

809 words, about 4 min 3

The locked room and the long night in the lock-up

On 12 August a shopkeeper in Gandhi Nagar, Jammu, reports the theft of 14 tola of gold ornaments from his display counter during the lunch hour. At 9 pm the same day a source tells you, the Station House Officer, that the suspect, Rakesh, has hidden the ornaments in the rented first-floor room he occupies in a house 300 m from the shop.

1,045 words, about 5 min 4

Eleven at night: an oral order to ban assembly, detain three and seal a press

It is 11 pm on 3 February. You are the Station House Officer of a district headquarters town.

1,038 words, about 5 min 5

Thirty thousand on a single lane: Meraj-ul-Alam at the shrine on the Dal Lake foreshore

You are the Sub-Divisional Police Officer for a shrine township on the Dal Lake foreshore in Srinagar. The night of 27 Rajab (Meraj-ul-Alam) falls this week and the shrine, which houses the Moi-e-Muqqadas, will stay open from 8 pm to 3 am.

1,071 words, about 5 min