CHANDIGARH: Now Punjab Police has eleven Director General of Police (DGP) level officers and 20 Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) level officers, as today eight officers of 1993 batch were promoted as ADGPs. For the first time two women IPS officer are now ADGPs in state police.
The police is getting top heavy as will the 1987 batch all officers are in the rank of DGP, the senior most DGP rank officer is SS Saini of 1982 batch posted as DGP-cum-Chairman Punjab Police Housing Corporation and then his batchmate Suresh Arora who is DGP of Punjab Police. While the junior most DGP rank officer is VK Bhawra of 1987 batch who is posted as DGP (Provisioning and Modernization).
With promotion of eight officers of 1993 batch as ADGPs today now from 1988 batch till 1993 batch all officers are in the rank of ADGP thus a total of twenty officers are ADGPs in the state police. As Gurpreet Deo has been promoted and posted as ADGP (IT & T & Litigation) and Shashi Prabha Dwivedi promoted as ADGP (HRD) both are women IPS officers.
The officers promoted as ADGPs are Varinder Kumar posted as ADGP (Intelligence), Ishwar Singh promoted as ADGP ( Law & Order with additional charge of CP & NRI), Jitendra Jain posted as ADGP (Policy & Rules), SK Asthana promoted as ADGP (Modernization), RN Dhoke is ADGP (Security) and Arpit Shukla posted as ADGP (Provisioning). All these officers are of 1993 batch.
As the Punjab Government today transferred 32 IPS and 5 PPS officers. As Sharad Satya Chauhan was transferred as ADGP (Traffic), Hapreet Singh Sidhu who is ADGP (STF) on drug, he was also ADGP border range that charge has been taken away from him and Gaurav Yadav is now ADGP (Administration).
The other officers transferred are Naresh Arora is IGP, Intelligence, Ram Singh as IGP, Intelligence (Administration), V. Neeraja is IGP (Ropar Range) with additional charge of IGP Cyber Crime, MF Farooqui is new IGP (Bathinda Range), Naunihal Singh goes as IGP (Jalandhar Range), Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh is posted as IGP (Crime), Gurinder Singh Dhillon is IGP (Ferozepur Range), Mohnish Chawla is transferred as IGP (IT & T), MS Chhina is IGP (Human Rights), Jaskaran Singh goes as IGP (Crime), Yurinder Singh posted as Additional Director-cum- IFP MRS PPA Phillaur, SK Singh is IGP Security, with additional charge of IGP Traffic, AK Pandey is IGP Law & Order and Commando-cum-SOG, Ananya Gautam posted as IGP ATS (with additional charge of IFP FIU), AK Mittal posted as DIG (Administration), Gursharan Singh is DIG (Intelligence), .Sukhchain Singh is new Ludhiana Police Commissioner, BL Meena is DIG (Crime), Ranbir Singh Khatra posted as DIG (Ludhiana Range), Deepak Hilori posted as AIG Intelligence and Amneet Kondal has been transferred as AIG Personnel-II.
Meanwhile taking serious note of dissension among the top brass of the Punjab Police, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh warned that he would not tolerate any indiscipline in the force. He discussed the issue with Home Secretary NS Kalsi, DGP Suresh Arora and CPS to CM Suresh Kumar, and directed them to examine the matter and suggest suitable action, as necessary to resolve the same. Singh was of the view that any grievance by any member of the police force, including those against colleagues, should be routed through the well-established administrative procedures and channels laid down for the purpose. There were well laid down hierarchies that needed to be stringently adhered to, if the police force was to function efficaciously, he added.
The Chief Minister said that as a former member of a uniformed force, he was of the opinion that any act of indiscipline was a matter of grave concern, to be treated with seriousness. The 80,000 strong Punjab Police force naturally looked up to its senior officers for leadership and direction, he said, adding that internal discord or friction could seriously undermine its professional and operational capabilities. He directed the Home Secretary and DGP to ensure that all investigations in the drugs cases are carried out impartially, without fear or favor.