Context: Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs has released the top 10 police stations in India.
Key Points

• The objective was to rank the top 10 Police Stations out of 16,671 Police Stations in the country through data analysis, direct observation and public feedback.

The ranking process commenced with shortlisting of the best performing Police Stations, in each State on the basis of addressing:

• Property offence
• Crime against women
• Crime against weaker sections
• Missing persons, unidentified found person and unidentified dead bodies (parameter introduced in 2020 survey)

The number of Police Stations selected initially from each State comprised of

• Three from each State with more than 750 Police Stations
• Two from all other States and Delhi
• One from each Union Territory

In the final stage, 19 parameters were identified to evaluate the standards of service delivery and identify techniques of improvement in policing.

• It constituted 80 percent of weightage in overall scoring.
• The balance 20 percent was based on infrastructure of the police station and approachability of personnel and feedback of citizens.
• The categories of citizens included were from nearby residential areas, nearby markets and citizens leaving police stations.
• The annual ranking of Police Stations recognizes the hard work of our police personnel, encourages our police forces and also provides a feedback on many aspects of policing in the country for future guidance.
• It also provides a picture of the state of physical infrastructure, resources and deficiencies at the level of police stations.
• The states having top 10 police stations are Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Telangana.