UP Police Jail Warder Eligibility 2026

UP Police Jail Warder Eligibility

The details below are from the 2025 cycle (advertisement of 31 Dec 2025). The next notification may change them.

Nationality

Indian citizen. Reservation benefits are only for domiciles of Uttar Pradesh in the notified categories.

Educational qualification

Class 12 (Intermediate) pass from a recognised board, or equivalent.
Preference is given for NCC 'B' certificate or DOEACC/NIELIT 'O' Level computer certificate, as per the notice.

Age limit

The notification first kept the normal limits: maximum 22 years for men and 25 years for women (minimum 18). On 5 January 2026 the UP Government gave a one-time 3-year relaxation in the upper age limit for all categories, under Rule 3 of the UP Public Services (Relaxation of Age Limit for Recruitment) Rules, 1992.

Candidate (General)	Normal limit	With one-time 3-year relaxation (2025 cycle)
Male	18–22 years	18–25 years
Female	18–25 years	18–28 years

OBC, SC and ST candidates of UP get further relaxation as per state rules. The one-time relaxation was only for the 2025 recruitment; whether it will be repeated in the next cycle is not known. Check the age reckoning date in the official notice.

Physical standards

Category	Male height	Male chest	Female height
UR, OBC, SC	168 cm	79 cm (84 cm expanded)	152 cm
ST	160 cm	77 cm (82 cm expanded)	147 cm

Minimum weight for women: 40 kg. These figures are the standards reported for the 2024 Constable cycle.

Physical fitness

Men must run 4.8 km in 25 minutes and women 2.4 km in 14 minutes in the PET.

Source: India TV News (31 Dec 2025), Careers360 News, The Week (PTI, 3 Feb 2026), All India Radio News (5 Jan 2026), Careers360 (vacancy and dates), Careers360 Hindi (physical standards, 2024 cycle), Patrika (PET, 2025)

UP Police Jail Warder Eligibility 2026