SSC Delhi Police Head Constable (Ministerial)

The vacancies are provisional and liable to change. Out of the 295 open vacancies for men, 7 are reserved for persons with benchmark disabilities (locomotor disability of 40% and above, one leg or both legs affected); for women, 4 of the 168 open vacancies are reserved in the same way. These PwBD posts are civilian in nature and do not wear the Delhi Police uniform.

Ten percent of vacancies are reserved for ex-servicemen. Personnel of the Central Para Military Forces are not eligible to apply under the ex-servicemen category.

Age is counted on 1 July 2025: you must be 18 to 25 years old, which means born not before 2 July 2000 and not later than 1 July 2007. The date of birth must match your Matriculation/Secondary certificate.

You need a 10+2 (Senior Secondary) pass or equivalent from a recognised board at the time of filling in the form, plus a typing speed of 30 words per minute in English or 25 words per minute in Hindi. The result of your qualifying exam must have been declared by the closing date.

Sons and daughters of serving, retired or deceased Delhi Police personnel or Multi-Tasking Staff get a 5 cm relaxation in height (and 5 cm in chest for men), unless the parent was dismissed, removed, terminated or compulsorily retired as a penalty.

The computer-based exam is a single objective paper of 100 multiple-choice questions for 100 marks in 90 minutes, set in Hindi and English only. Each wrong answer costs 0.25 marks. Scores from multiple shifts are normalised. No scribe is provided to PwBD candidates.

Candidates up to 20 times the vacancies in each category are called for the PE&MT. The minimum qualifying marks are 40% for General/EWS, 35% for SC/ST/OBC and 30% for PwBD and ex-servicemen; SSC may lower these if not enough candidates qualify. PwBD candidates go straight to the typing test, as they are exempt from PE&MT.

The PE&MT is qualifying and is held by Delhi Police at three centres in Delhi. Those who clear the race go on to the long jump and then the high jump; each jump must be cleared in any one of three chances. There is no appeal against disqualification in the race or jumps. Physical measurement is taken only of those who clear the endurance tests; an appeal against measurement must be filed on the same day.

Height and chest relaxation of 5 cm applies to residents of listed hill areas and states (with a certificate), ST candidates (and SC candidates for women's height), and wards of Delhi Police personnel.

The typing test lasts 10 minutes and carries 25 marks that count in the final merit. You get a printed passage of at least 400 words in English or 350 words in Hindi. Speed is total strokes divided by 5, divided by 10 minutes, minus one word for each mistake.

Those who clear the typing test take a qualifying computer formatting test in MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel, 10 minutes each, formatting a document to match a supplied handout and printing it.

The final list is drawn from candidates who clear the formatting test, on the basis of the computer-based exam (100 marks), the typing test (25 marks) and any bonus marks. A reserve panel of 15% is also prepared.

Ties are broken in this order: the older candidate first, then higher computer-based exam marks, then higher typing test marks, then the alphabetical order of first names.