The Physical and Medical Standards for the Candidate for the Post of Assistant Commandants in the Central Armed Police Forces is as given below.

(1) Physical Standards:

The minimum requirements for the candidate are as follows:

Males Females

Height 165 cm 157 cm

Chest 81 cm (Not applicable)
(Unexpanded) (With 5 cm
minimum expansion)

Weight 50 kg. 46 kg


(2) Medical Standards:

(a) Eye Sight:

Better eye Worse eye
(Corrected vision) (Corrected vision)

Distant vision 6/6 6/12

6/9 6/9


Near Vision N6 N9
(Corrected) (Corrected)

With Glasses/LASIK Surgery
Limits of Refractive errors permitted
-4.00 D (including cylinder) Myopia
+4.00 D (including cylinder) Hypermetropia

Colour Perception-III (CP-III) by ISIHARA plates

(b) Carrying angle:

Carrying angle should not be more than 15˚ for male and 20˚ for female.

(c) Ear:

i) Candidate should not have any degree of deafness or persistent ear discharge.

ii) Candidate should not have any other condition (congenital or acquired) like atresia of the meatus, exostosis, neoplasm which is causing obstruction of ear passage and should not have history of recurrent earache, tinnitus and vertigo.

(d) Nose:

Candidates should not have DNS, atrophic rhinitis, tubercular ulceration, chronic sinusitis.

(e) Neck:

Candidate should not have enlarged lymph nodes, thyroid or other swelling of neck, inability to extend the neck fully or any evidence of disease of spine or cervical vertebrae.

(f) Teeth:

Candidate must possess sufficient number of sound teeth for efficient mastication. Candidate should not have severe pyorrhea.

(g) Venereal Disease:

Candidate should not have active signs of clinical VD.

(h) Chronic skin diseases:

Candidate should not have chronic skin diseases like Leprosy, chronic dermatitis, extensive PityriasisVersicolor, psoriasis, SLE etc.