5.31 lakh police posts vacant in India, maximum in UP and WestBengal: Govt PTIMar 16, 2021, 17:47 IST Representative imageTOI New Delhi, Mar 16 () There were over five lakh vacancies in police departments across states and Union territories in the country, with the maximum posts lying vacant in Uttar Pradesh, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. As per data compiled by the Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D), the sanctioned strength of police was 26,23,225 while the actual strength was 20,91,488 and 5,31,737 vacancies were there as on January 1, 2020, Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kisha Reddy informed the Lok Sabha. Reddy tabled these figures in response to a query by DMK MP T R Paarivendhar, who had sought to know details of