2 Women IPS Officers Promoted to DGP Rank in Punjab

GG News Bureau

Chandigarh, 24th Jan. Senior IPS officers Gurpreet Kaur Deo and Shashi Prabha Dwivedi have become Punjab’s first female police officers to be promoted to the rank of Director General of Police.

According to an official order issued on Monday, they were among seven IPS officers from the 1993 batch who were promoted to the rank of DGP in Punjab.

Deo previously served as additional director general of police, community affairs division, and women affairs, while Dwivedi served as Additional DGP, Railway.

According to the order, Chief Director Vigilance Bureau Varinder Kumar, ADGP Human Resource Development Ishwar Singh, ADGP Punjab State Power Corporation Limited Jitendra Kumar Jain, ADGP Police and Rules S K Asthana, and ADGP Internal Security R N Dhoke have also been promoted to the rank of DGP.

With the promotion of seven ADGPs to the rank of DGP, the state now has 13 DGP officers.

Officiating state police chief Gaurav Yadav, chairman Punjab Police Housing Corporation V K Bhawra, DGP Punjab Home Guards Sanjeev Kalra, Special DGP Punjab State Human Rights Commission Prabodh Kumar, Special DGP—MD Punjab Police Housing Corporation Sharad Satya Chauhan, and Special DGP Special Task Force Kuldeep Singh are the other senior IPS officers who are currently DGPs.

Four other senior IPS officers, all of whom hold the rank of DGP, are on central deputation. They are Samant Goyal (chief of the Research and Analysis Wing), Dinkar Gupta (chief of the National Investigation Agency), Parag Jain (additional secretary), and Harpreet Sidhu (serving in the Indo-Tibetan Border Force).

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