Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) on June 18, stated that Assam has shortage of 15,351 Police personnel while Nagaland is the only Indian State with surplus cops' strength, reports Northeast Now. According to the data available, against a sanctioned strength of 86,959 Police personnel, Assam presently only has strength of 71,608 Police personnel to maintain law and order of the state. As per data on Police organisations being compiled by Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPRD), sanctioned strength of Police personnel in India is 26,23,225, whereas actual strength is 20,91,488 and 5,31,737 vacancies are presently there in different States across India. In comparison, against a sanctioned strength of 26,738 Police personnel, Nagaland, the only State in India has 28,113 Police personnel, a surplus of 1,375 Police personnel. Almost all other Northeastern States have vacancies of Police personnel. Arunachal Pradesh has a vacancy of 2,737 Police personnel, Manipur with a vacancy of 5,634 Police personnel, Meghalaya having vacancy of 1,739, Mizoram vacancy is 3,205, Sikkim’ vacancy 810, and Tripura has a vacancy of 6,925 Police personnel. In a statement, UMHA has ‘issued advisories to the States for filling up these vacancies in the States and to bring in the requisite reforms in the Police administration to meet the expectations of the people’. UMHA also stated that the Central Paramilitary Forces are facing shortage manpower forces. Assam Rifles (AR) has the vacancy of 8035 personnel against a sanctioned strength of 65143, Border Security Force (BSF) has shortage of 28905 personnel against its sanctioned strength of 265173, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has a vacancy of 24161 personnel against a sanctioned strength of 163313, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has vacancy of 27825 personnel against a sanctioned strength of 324723, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has a total vacancy of 18633 personnel against its sanctioned strength of 97792, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has a vacancy of 5169 personnel against a total sanctioned strength of 88439 personnel. According to UMHA, efforts are also being to add more manpower strength to National Investigation Agency (NIA) who is facing staff crunch of 427 posts. This percentage of vacancy is 33.43 percent of the total sanctioned strength of 1277 posts.