“Stress”, means a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. It is a state when we realize that each and every thing appears to have too much, we are overloaded and we really can face the critical situations placed upon us. Now a day the concept of job stress is very common in each and every profession and it is inescapable among police personnel also. The main motive of this research paper is to recognize issues of job stress among police personnel and comparison has been done among married and unmarried police personnel. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 60 police personnel in Chandigarh city. Self prepared questionnaire on job stress was used for collection of data, T-test was used to find the significant difference among married and unmarried police personnel in job stress. It was found that most prominent issues of job stress like No timely promotion, Lot of sudden assignments, Unsatisfactory working conditions, Excessive paper work and Lack of opportunities to utilize abilities were on the top of the list and also there was no significant difference among married and unmarried police personnel in job stress.
