Stress has become a global health challenge especially for those service providers who are dedicated to the human service sectors. Police is one of the most important and considerable profession as they protect and serve the public. The Uttar Pradesh Police are overburdened with the work pressure existing because of maximum number of cases, as evidenced from the statistics; and that too to justify their duties and responsibilities under heavy political pressure. This study thus explores the

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... onsible factors of stress and its relationship with the demographic factors. It aims at identifying the causes of stress and investigates the demographic factors affecting stress level among police personnel. Here under the study, a sample of 100 police officials was taken from Lucknow district using a convenience sampling method. The Findings revealed that the political pressure, no shift duty, lack of resources, overtime demand of working, negative comments from public and not paid according to work were the major responsible factors of stress among police officials of Uttar Pradesh. It has also been emerged in the study, that stress is more significant among the experienced and the personnel of higher rank. The educated and married personnel seemed to be more dissatisfied and highly stressed. The study, thus finding out the major stressors of police personnel of Uttar Pradesh, suggests the coping strategies viz. training sessions, relief camps etc. as required to be adopted to tackle with the major stressors considering the demographic relationship as has been identified in the present study.