Overview
- The state government appointed Rajeev Krishna as permanent Director General of Police Saturday, bringing to an end nearly four years without a full-time DGP in Uttar Pradesh.
- The selection followed a UPSC shortlist of three senior IPS officers that was examined by state officials and cleared after vigilance formalities before final approval.
- Krishna is a 1991-batch IPS officer with nearly three years until his June 2029 retirement and he supervised a fresh recruitment that hired more than 60,000 constables after a 2024 exam was cancelled for a paper leak.
- Officials say the appointment is intended to restore leadership continuity and sustain recent technology-led reforms and stricter monitoring that aim to speed investigations and improve policing services for citizens.
- The move follows repeated Supreme Court direction that states use transparent, UPSC-facilitated selection for full-time chiefs and ends a period in which UP cycled through multiple acting DGPs after the 2022 removal of the previous regular chief.