Bihar has only 80 cops to look after the security of one lakh population, State parliamentary affairs minister Vijendra Yadav said today.
Responding to a question raised by JD(U) MLA Izhar Ahmed in the assembly, Mr. Yadav said that Bihar has only 80 cops for a population of one lakh as against the national average of 145 cops for the same number of people.
There was a total number of 85,167 cops in Bihar, he said.
Mr. Yadav said that a proposal was pending before the State government to raise the police ratio.
