MHA Best Police Stations of India 2020: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday released a list of the top 10 best performing police stations in the country for the year 2020. According to the ministry, the stations were chosen in accordance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directions while addressing the 2015 Directors General of Police (DGP) Conference in Kutch, Gujarat.

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Amit Shah, Union Minister for Home Affairs, said a majority of police stations short-listed from the thousands of police stations in the country are those located in small towns and rural areas.

In order to incentivize more effective functioning and bring healthy competition, the ministry of home affairs selects the best-performing police stations across the country every year.

Of the total 16,671 police stations across the country, 75 made it into the second stage, and from those in the second stage, the top 10 were selected.

According to the ministry, a total of 4,056 volunteers participated in the survey.

India’s top 10 police stations for the year 2020:

  1. Nongpok Sekmai (Thoubal, Manipur)

  2. AWPS-Suramangalam (Salem, Tamil Nadu)

  3. Kharsang (Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh)

  4. Jhilmili (Surajpur, Chhattisgarh)

  5. Sanguem (South Goa, Goa)

  6. Kalighat (North and Middle Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands)

  7. Pakyong (East district, Sikkim)

  8. Kanth (Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh)

  9. Khanvel (Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Dadra and Nagar Haveli)

  10. Jammikunta Town (Karimnagar, Telangana)


The ranking process started with shortlisting of the best performing Police Stations, in each State on the basis of addressing: -

  • Property offence

  • Crime against women

  • Crime against weaker sections

  • Missing persons, unidentified found person and unidentified dead bodies

  • The last parameter has been introduced this year.


The number of Police Stations selected initially from each State comprised of:

  • Three from each State with more than 750 Police Stations

  • Two from all other States and Delhi

  • One from each Union Territory


75 police stations qualified for the first round. For the final stage, 19 variables were set for the evaluation to qualify for the final list. The variables included standards of service delivery and identify techniques of improvement in policing. These two comprised 80 per cent of the overall scoring.

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The rest 20 per cent comprised the infrastructure of the police station and the approachability of personnel and feedback of citizens.