Police personnel behaving like criminals will not be tolerated: Bihar DGP

Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) Vinay Kumar, on Friday (January 9, 2026) issued strict instructions to the force warning them against illegal practices. Giving a stern warning to the police personnel indulged in unscrupulous practices, the State’s police chief unequivocally asserted that “police personnel in uniform behaving like criminals will not be tolerated at all.”

“We have 13,000 Sub-Inspectors and there are one or two persons who receive illegal gratification, may be in gold, money etc. We will not tolerate such incidents. We will send such personnel to jail after lodging FIRs, besides ensuring their dismissal from service,” Mr. Kumar said.

Last week, a sub-inspector Pramod Kumar, posted at Akbarpur police station in Nawada district, was arrested red-handed while accepting the bribe of ₹25,000 from a complainant seeking to prevent the arrest.

In the last three years, at least 50 Station House Officers (SHOs) have been either suspended or sent to police lines for allegedly taking money from sand and liquor mafia in Bihar.

Bihar DGP, however, asserted that the State has witnessed a decline in the number of major criminal cases of murder, rape, dacoity, riots in the year 2025 in comparison to 2024 due to better and effective policing

“We have carried out comparative analysis of major crimes which shows that murder cases fell by 8.3% , rape by 8.2%, dacoity cases by 26.9%, and riots cases by 21.5% in 2025 in comparison to the year 2024 due to swift action by the police,” Mr. Kumar said.

The number of murder case was 2,556 in 2025 while it was 2,786 in 2024, he said adding that rape cases declined to 2,025 in 2025 from 2,205 cases in 2024. Similarly, the number of dacoity cases declined to 174 in 2025 from 238 in 2024 while the number of riot cases decreased to 2,502 cases in 2025 from 3,186 in 2024, he added.

He explained that a better intelligence gathering mechanism has led to gradual reduction in incidents of communal tensions in the State.

Replying to a query about police’s intervention in land-related disputes, Mr. Kumar made said that “police’s role in resolving land disputes is negligible.”

Stating that land disputes constitute 50-60% of total criminal cases, he said that Circle Offices (CO) will now hold meetings every Saturday to listen to land-related grievances, where SHO will also be present.

Mr. Kumar informed that the process to fill the 19,838 posts of constables is currently underway adding that the process of appointment of 4,361 posts of constable drivers have been completed in December 2025. Besides, the written examination to fill up 1,799 posts of Sub-Inspectors will be held soon, he added.