Police recruitment - Bombay style

1 of 7 Six hours sitting in the Indian sun: More than 15,000 candidates turned up this week for written tests for 700 vacancies in the police in Bombay, India.

2 of 7 Police jobs are sought after even though basic salaries are around $110 a month. Perhaps the tough image is part of the attraction. Candidates were not put off by a high-profile corruption scandal involving some senior officers.

3 of 7 For this candidate it all ended in tears when she was accused of cheating in her written exam.

4 of 7 The khaki sari: There are some 40,000 officers in the Bombay police, but only a few hundred are women.

5 of 7 "The police force is much misunderstood, " candidate Harshala Janardhan Patil told the BBC. "They have a humane side which no-one wants to see."

6 of 7 Another candidate, Anil Jagdane, stresses the social role of the police: "I'll go to places where there are problems and try to solve them."

7 of 7 After the ordeals of the written test, the candidates go home, hoping to among the lucky ones to be called for interview.