The Telangana State Level Police Recruitment Board has released its advance vacancy notification for 7,112 posts spanning four departments — Police Constables (three variants), Special Protection Force Constables, Fire Fighters, and Prison Warders. This is a three-stage selection: a written screening test, a physical efficiency round, and a final written exam — with no personal interview anywhere in the process. The exact application window will follow in a separate press release, but the eligibility conditions and selection structure are already locked in.

Department-Wise Vacancy Overview

Police Constable (Civil) alone accounts for over half of all posts on offer. Vacancy numbers are tentative and can change without notice at TSLPRB's discretion.

Stage 1 — Preliminary Written Test (PWT)

Minimum qualifying marks: 30% for OC (including EWS), 25% for BC, and 20% for SC/ST/Ex-servicemen/Home Guards. Papers are set in English-Telugu and English-Urdu; if there's any translation ambiguity, the English version is treated as final.

Stage 2 — Physical Measurement & Physical Efficiency Test

Run event is qualifying-only for Post Codes 21, 26, 27, 28. For Post Codes 22 and 25, Run performance earns graded marks that get normalized separately for men and women before being added to the final merit calculation. Long Jump and Shot Put are qualifying in nature across all posts.

Stage 3 — Final Written Examination (FWE)

Duration is 3 hours across all posts. Minimum qualifying marks: 40% for OC (including EWS), 35% for BC, and 30% for SC/ST/Ex-servicemen. Final selection is based strictly on FWE score alone for most posts — except Post Codes 22 and 25, where normalized PET marks also factor into the final common merit list.

Syllabus — Preliminary Written Test

Syllabus — Final Written Examination

The English-language questions appear only in English even in the Telugu/Urdu versions of the paper. The Board does not endorse any specific textbook for preparation.

Women's & Special Category Reservation

• Women get 33⅓% horizontal reservation (across every category, including EWS) for Post Codes 21, 25, and 26.
• For Post Code 22 (Direct Recruitment), women's reservation is 10% across every category.
• Special category quotas — Home Guard, Children of Police Personnel, NCC, Children of Deceased/Incapacitated Personnel, and similar — range from 2% to 25% depending on the specific post, and apply only to Telangana local candidates.
• If eligible women candidates aren't available for a reserved post, the vacancy is filled by men of the same category rather than carried forward.
• Special category vacancies that go unfilled are absorbed back into the general open/social category pool for that same recruitment.

Medical & Eyesight Standards

• Required vision: 6/6 (Distant) and 0/5 (Near) in both eyes, on the Snellen scale.
• Each eye must have a full field of vision — colour blindness, squint, or any morbid eye/eyelid condition is disqualifying.
• Conditions like knocking-knees, pigeon chest, flat foot, varicose veins, hammer toes, fractured limbs, decayed teeth, stammering, and hard of hearing are all explicitly disqualifying.
• Candidates are advised to get examined by a Civil Surgeon before applying, to avoid disappointment at a later medical stage.

One point worth internalising early: this recruitment runs on strict sequencing — you cannot skip or reschedule any stage, and a candidate who fails to appear at any point is automatically disqualified from that point onward. Given how physically demanding Stage 2 is, and how narrow the margins are on qualifying marks at every stage, treating the PET requirements as seriously as the written papers is not optional — many otherwise well-prepared candidates lose out at the physical stage rather than the written one.

Disclaimer: Based on TSLPRB Notification Rc No. 189/Rect./Rect.-2/2026 dated 29 July 2026. Vacancy numbers are tentative and subject to change without notice. Candidates should verify their complete eligibility, district-wise local cadre details, and application dates on the official website tgprb.in before applying.