The emotional intelligence and occupational stress of men and women police studied on 120 police constableswho were randomly selected from 22 police stations of Dharwad taluk. Emotional intelligence questionnaire by Dulewiczand Higgs (2001), occupational stress scale by Srivastav and Sing, (1984), socio-economic status scale by Agarwal et al.,2005 and self structured questionnaire to collect auxiliary information were used for data collection. Results revealed that50 per cent had average level of emotional intelligence while 4.2 percent had high and 45.8 per cent were in low levels.Majority (56.67%) of women had average level of emotional intelligence while 41.67 per cent had low and only 1.67 werein high level where as majority (50%) of men had low level of emotional intelligence while 43.3 per cent were in average and6.67 per cent had high level of emotional intelligence. It was noted that 58.33 per cent of police had moderate level ofoccupational stress while 35 per cent had high and only 6.67 per cent had low level of occupational stress. Sixty per centof men and 56.67 per cent of women had moderate level where as 33.3 per cent of men and 36.67 per cent of women werein high and only 10 per cent of men and 3.33 per cent of women were in low level of occupational stress. Occupational stresswas significantly and positively related to duty period and distance from residence to work place pointed out that higherthe duty period and greater the distance from residence to work place higher was the occupational stress. There wassignificant and negative relationship between family size and occupational stress indicating that increase in family sizedecreased the stress. Emotional intelligence and occupational stress were negatively related indicating higher the emotionalintelligence lesser was the occupational stress.