Punjab Police
What the state budget set aside to run the police and to build or buy for them. Not jails, not courts, not home guards.
2026-27 plan
Running costs ₹8,452.65 crore · Buildings and gear ₹467.67 crore.
Last four official figures
Spent, plan, updated plan, and next plan. Printed in thousands; shown in crore.Punjab budget 2026-27Source: Annual Financial Statement and Explanatory Memorandum on the Budget of the Government of Punjab for the year 2026-27, Finance Department, Government of Punjab, FY 2026-27, printed p. 14 (2055 Police, revenue disbursements)
Spent
2024-25
₹8,377.64 crore
Plan
2025-26
₹9,078 crore
Updated
2025-26
₹8,428.51 crore
Plan
2026-27
₹8,920.31 crore
Amounts in crore of rupees. Spent, plan, and updated plan are different kinds of figure — not one trend.
Running the force vs buildings and gear
Same year’s plan. Buildings and gear are the thin slice — that is the book.Punjab budget 2026-27Source: Annual Financial Statement and Explanatory Memorandum on the Budget of the Government of Punjab for the year 2026-27, Finance Department, Government of Punjab, FY 2026-27, printed p. 14 (2055 Police, revenue disbursements)
- Running costs · 94.8%
- ₹8,452.65 crore
- Buildings and gear · 5.2%
- ₹467.67 crore
The Home grant is not only police
Demand 12 Home Affairs also carries home guards and prosecutions on a separate capital line. Demand 36 Jails prints a buildings line under the same police capital code, but those amounts are jails — central jails, district jails, prison modernisation. That is not Police.
Salaries not split by station
Named police stations are not printed as allotments. We do not divide this total by the number of stations.
Trace
Book stops here
Each stop is a printed grain, or a dashed EMPTY where the book does not print the next line. We do not invent a station share.
Book
Punjab Annual Financial Statement and Capital Demand 12, 2026-27
Police
Running the force plus buildings and gear.
Running costs
Buildings and gear
Salaries
A statewide salaries total is not typed here.
Named police station
The book stops at the police line. We do not divide that total by the number of stations.
A research summary lists Punjab police at ₹9,269 crore for 2025-26. That is not this official 2026-27 plan of ₹8,920.31 crore.
Footnotes
Annual Financial Statement and Explanatory Memorandum on the Budget of the Government of Punjab for the year 2026-27 — 2055 Police — not jails 2056
Finance Department, Government of Punjab. Fiscal year 2026-27. printed p. 14 (2055 Police, revenue disbursements). Extracted 2026-09-07.
Figures printed in thousands of rupees. Converted to crore by dividing by 10,000. Hero running costs are this AFS 2055 line. 4055 is taken from Capital Demand 12 (DGP), not the AFS 4055 total, because Demand 36 Jails also prints 4055 for prisons. Health also read: 2210, 2211 (p. 16) and 4210 (p. 24).
Demands for Grants (Capital) — with Detailed Estimates of Capital Expenditure, 2026-27, Demand 12 Home Affairs — 4055 Capital Outlay on Police — Demand 12 Director General of Police
Finance Department, Government of Punjab. Fiscal year 2026-27. printed p. 134 (Demand 12 4055 DGP total); printed p. 135 (4055 I-Summary); printed p. 502–506 (Demand 36 Jails 4055 — not taken). Extracted 2026-09-07.
Figures printed in thousands of rupees. Converted to crore by dividing by 10,000. Demand 36 Jails prints 4055 for central jails, district jails and prison modernisation — that is not Police. Demand 12 4070 Home Guards / prosecutions is not Police.
Account codes in the book: 2055 (running), 4055 (buildings). All states · Compare with Haryana · Sources & methodology