These figures are from an article by a police officer in the Hindustan Times newspaper. The writer pointed to the rough treatment meted out to the policemen compared to the services enjoyed by armymen. I have misplaced the link to this, so kindly forgive.

5,400: no. of IAS (Indian Administrative Service) offficers in india, presiding over rougly 15 million civil servants.
3,800: IPS (Indian police Service) officers, managing over 2.3 million central and state police personnel.
55,000: army officers, managing 1.4 million armed forces personnel [ total strength of officers- 67,540]
1:2 - the rough ratio of expenditure on police and armed forces in absolute terms and 1:3 in per capita terms.