The chief secretary also blamed the central government for allocating very few IPS officers to the state.

'Uttar Pradesh was allotted only eight IPS officers in 2005, six in 2006, six again in 2007 and as low as five in 2008, against our demand for 14 officers in each of those years,' he pointed out.

'That led to increasing shortage of directly recruited IPS officers required by the state. Therefore we have now demanded 15 officers this year,' he said.

'Even the promotion of our Provincial Police Service (PPS) officers to the IPS cadre usually gets delayed at the centre, with the result that we are left handicapped,' he added.