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Thursday, September 20, 2007

'Overweight, colour blind men' hired as India policemen


A man weighing 110kg (17 stone) was recruited as a policeman in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, an official report says.

The report was examining alleged irregularities in police recruitment.


The man would have been unable to run 3km, a mandatory requirement, the report said.

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Did you know that:

  • A total of 7,000 candidates were interviewed in three and a half days. Taking into account eight-hour working days, that would mean 250 candidates were interviewed every hour, or more than four candidates every minute

  • A random sampling of recruits revealed that 370 of them were suffering from varying stages of colour blindness, which disqualifies them automatically from the job.

  • One candidate found to be colour blind ranked second in the shooting practice test. The investigators wondered he could excel in identifying objects having multiple colours from 100 mts on the shooting range.

  • Experts said the handwriting of about 50 policemen in their examination papers did not match their writing in other documents. The investigators say 'dummy candidates'



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