What this recruitment is
Nepal Police (Nepal Prahari) is the country’s civilian police force, and its constable level recruitment is the entry route into general policing across Nepal. The recruitment covers two broad tracks: Prahari Jawan, the general duty constable post open to candidates without a specific technical background, and technical constable posts, which are filled against specific trade or skill requirements named in each notification. Both tracks are run through the same office and the same online recruitment system, but they are advertised and screened as separate post categories within one recruitment cycle.
Nepal Police does not run a single fixed annual intake the way some civil service exams do. Instead, the force opens recruitment whenever sanctioned vacancies accumulate across its units, publishes a notification listing the posts and their numbers, and runs one selection cycle against that notification. A recent notification covered 1,223 total posts combining Prahari Jawan and office assistant positions, of which 280 were technical constable posts specifically. That is the only vacancy figure with a specific, checkable source at the time of writing; no verified figure for the number of applicants who compete for these seats is available, so this page does not repeat the unsourced applicant counts that circulate on recruitment blogs.
Who conducts it and who can apply
Nepal Police itself runs the recruitment, from notification to final selection, through its own personnel and recruitment offices. Eligibility for each post, including the minimum educational qualification, age window and physical standards, is set out post by post in the current vacancy notification rather than fixed once for all posts across every cycle. Because Prahari Jawan and technical constable posts carry different entry requirements, and those requirements are revised between recruitment rounds, a candidate should always check the specific notification for the post and round they intend to apply for rather than relying on a previous cycle’s criteria. Nepali citizenship is a baseline requirement for all posts.
The selection process
Nepal Police constable recruitment runs through four stages. It opens with a physical fitness and bearing test, which screens candidates on height, chest measurement and physical performance benchmarks set in the notification before any other stage is attempted. Candidates who clear the physical stage sit a written examination; the exact pass mark for this written stage is referenced at around 40 out of 100 in secondary recruitment guides, but that figure is not independently confirmed from an official Nepal Police source, so it should be treated as approximate rather than certain until a candidate verifies it against the current notification. A medical examination follows for candidates who clear the written stage, checking general fitness and any post-specific medical standards. The process ends with an interview, after which final selection is made.
Technical constable posts follow the same broad sequence but are assessed against the technical or trade qualification specified for that post, alongside the general physical and medical standards that apply across constable recruitment.
How to apply
Nepal Police recruitment is managed through the force’s Online Recruitment Management System (ORMS), where applicants create an account, fill in the application form and upload the documents specified in the notification, typically citizenship documents, educational certificates and a recent photograph. Because both the physical standards and the written examination pass mark can change between recruitment rounds, and because Prahari Jawan and technical constable posts are advertised with different requirements, the only reliable source for exact eligibility, dates and the application fee for a specific round is the live notification published on the Nepal Police recruitment channels linked from this page. Schedule and vacancy figures on this page carry their source and the date they were last checked, and any figure that is not yet confirmed from a checkable source is left out rather than estimated.