BENGALURU: A 2000 batch IPS officer, D Roopa is not new to taking on people in power. She is the first woman Kannadiga IPS officer serving in Karnataka and was ranked 43rd in UPSC examination. During her first stint as Alnavar district SP in Madhya Pradesh, she had arrested Uma Bharti, then CM of that state, based on court orders in a 10-year-old rioting case.
She was also the first SP of the newly formed Yadgir district, the 30th district in Karnataka. She was conferred the President’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service on January 26, 2016.
A few months ago, she had taken on Mysuru-Kodagu MP Prathap Simha over his comments on social media on transfers in the police department. Simha claimed that state IPS officers were seeking central postings due to mishandling of honest officials. Roopa had responded to this by asking him not to politicise the functioning of the bureaucracy.
As DCP of the City Armed Reserve, she withdrew police vehicles that were being used in the cavalcade of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa without permit. As DCP in Bengaluru, she withdrew a number of police personnel who had been unauthorisedly deployed as orderlies for VVIPs and politicians including a former CM.
Roopa, who hails from Davanagere, is married to Munish Moudgil, an IAS officer. Before being posted to the Prisons department, she worked as DIG-CID (economic offences wing).