Police efforts in helping aspirants pay marginal dividends

12 of the 206 candidates trained in city selected for State force

The training given by the Mangaluru and Dakshina Kannada police to get more people from the coastal region, more so from Dakshina Kannada, into the police force, has paid some dividends with 12 of the 206 such candidates getting selected for posts of police sub-inspector and police constables, recently.

Of the 12 candidates selected, nine are from Dakshina Kannada, two from Uttara Kannada and one is from Udupi district.

Of the nine candidates from Dakshina Kannada, eight have been selected as police constables and one as police sub-inspector. The remaining three candidates, from Udupi and Uttara Kannada, have been selected as constables.