Overview

• Currently DGP (Administration), the 1994-batch officer took charge as in‑charge DGP/Head of Police Force following a handover at police headquarters.
• The government has forwarded eight DGP‑rank officers to the UPSC for empanelment, and a regular chief will be chosen from the three names the commission sends back.
• Outgoing DGP Shankar Jiwal was appointed the first Chairman of the newly constituted Fire Commission.
• Reporting notes a departure from recent adherence to the Supreme Court’s Prakash Singh process for appointing the DGP, with a delay in sending the panel cited by a senior officer.
• Other postings include Vinit Dev Wankhede as CMD of the Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation, as coverage revisited unresolved scrutiny from the 2018 Thoothukudi firing and the 2022 probe that named senior officers including retiree Shailesh Kumar Yadav.