UPPRPB: final selection results name 32,679 candidates

The Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board (UPPRPB) released the final selection results for its 2025 constable and equivalent-post recruitment on 14 October 2026. The board’s website lists the result notice, while Hindustan Times reported that 32,679 candidates were selected from 28,86,797 applicants, including 4,481 women.

The result covers civil police, armed police and correctional-service posts in Uttar Pradesh. It is the outcome of the recruitment advertised in 2025, not a fresh application window. The board’s supplied notice-page extract records entries dated 14 October 2026, and Amar Ujala also identifies that date as the release of the final selection notice.

PAC and armed police account for the largest allocation

The recruitment spans seven groups of posts. The vacancy figures below were reported by both Times Now and Hindustan Times.

The Provincial Armed Constabulary, or PAC, is an armed police formation. Mounted police personnel serve in units that use horses, while jail warders work in prisons rather than ordinary police stations. These distinctions matter because the announcement combines recruitment to different services under the description “constable and equivalent posts”.

Hindustan Times reported selections against each of these post groups, with PAC and armed police accounting for the largest allocation. The women’s battalion vacancies are not the same as the total number of women selected: the recruitment also includes civil police posts open to women and a separate female jail warder group.

The applicant total measures applications received, not attendance at the written examination. The supplied reports do not establish how many applicants actually sat the examination or provide a complete count of candidates eliminated at each stage.

From the application window to the final list

The notification was issued on 31 December 2025, according to Hindustan Times. Earlier reporting by Times Now put the application window between 31 December 2025 and 30 January 2026.

That earlier report said applicants had to complete One Time Registration before submitting their applications. This is a preliminary candidate-registration process; completing it is distinct from submitting an application for a particular recruitment.

The written examination took place on 8, 9 and 10 June 2026 in six shifts across all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Hindustan Times reported. Jagran Josh reported that 76,184 candidates were shortlisted for document verification and the physical standard test, held from 17 August to 31 August 2026.

Document verification checks whether certificates support an applicant’s stated qualifications and eligibility. A physical standard test checks prescribed bodily measurements, while a physical efficiency test assesses performance in specified physical activities. The supplied extracts do not give the measurement thresholds or exercise requirements for this recruitment.

The physical efficiency test ran from 1 October to 11 October 2026, according to Amar Ujala. Its report said the final list was prepared from candidates who cleared the required stages, using their normalised written scores, merit and post preferences.

Normalised scores, preferences and cut-offs

Normalisation is a method used to make examination scores comparable across different shifts, where question-paper difficulty may vary. A normalised score is therefore not necessarily identical to the candidate’s raw marks. The supplied material does not contain the board’s formula, so the precise adjustment cannot be independently explained or reproduced.

Hindustan Times, attributing the selection basis to the board, said the result depended on total normalised written-examination scores, merit ranking and preferences entered in application forms, subject to the state government’s reservation policy.

Merit ranking places candidates in score order under the applicable rules. Preferences record the posts an applicant would favour. Consequently, a combined recruitment result involves both selection and allocation to a post; a score cannot be read separately from eligibility, available vacancies and the applicable allocation rules.

Jagran Josh reported that post-wise and category-wise final cut-offs were released with the result. It described a cut-off as the normalised score of the last selected candidate in the relevant category.

For civil police constables, that report listed the main unreserved cut-off at 266.57849 marks and the Scheduled Tribe cut-off at 238.28209 marks, on a scale of 300 marks. These figures are taken from secondary reporting; the original cut-off document was not available in the supplied material.

The report also listed separate thresholds for horizontal reservation groups, including women and ex-servicemen. Horizontal reservation operates across broader reservation categories rather than constituting a separate post cadre. A threshold attached to one such group should therefore not be treated as the general cut-off for every applicant.

A reliable overall reservation-category selection table cannot be drawn from the supplied extracts. Hindustan Times reports category counts that do not reconcile with its stated total of 32,679 selections if read as separate, additive groups. Without the underlying board table and its definitions, those figures cannot establish the final category distribution.

Selection status and individual marks are separate releases

The selection list is available through the board’s website, according to Hindustan Times. Its report said the designated result facility uses a candidate’s registration number and date of birth.

Publication of the selection result does not mean individual normalised scorecards have also been released. Hindustan Times reported that scores would be published in the third week of November, with a separate notice explaining access. Amar Ujala instead reported availability during the third and fourth weeks of November. The supplied sources do not resolve that difference or establish an exact activation date.

Final selection is also distinct from appointment and joining. Times Now said subsequent formalities may include medical examination, certificate checks, character verification and validation of reservation documents, as applicable. Its report does not establish that every listed formality remains pending for every selected candidate.

This report is based on the supplied official website extracts and news reports. Live verification was not possible, and the full selection notice, candidate list and original cut-off document were not available for examination. The supplied material does not establish a joining date, training schedule or deadline for completing post-selection formalities.