Uttarakhand Police
State Police Of Uttarakhand, India
Law enforcement agency
- Pushkar Singh Dhami, Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
- Abhinav Kumar,[2] IPS, Director General of Police
The Uttarakhand Police[3] is the law enforcement agency for the state of Uttarakhand in India. It was formed in 2000.
Organisational structure
Uttarakhand Police comes under the direct control of Department of Home Affairs, Government of Uttarakhand. The Uttarakhand Police is headed by the Director General of Police (DGP).[4]
Hierarchy
Officers
- Director General of Police (DGP) (IPS)
- Additional Director General of Police (ADG) (IPS)
- Inspector General of Police (IG) (IPS)
- Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) (IPS)
- Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) (IPS)
- Superintendent of Police (SP) (IPS)
- Additional Superintendent of Police (Addl. SP) (UPS)
- Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) or Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) (UPS)
Sub-ordinates
- Inspector of Police
- Sub-Inspector of Police (SI)
- Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police (ASI)
- Head Constable (HC)
- Senior Constable (SC)
- Constable
List of directors general of the Uttarakhand Police
The Director General of Police (DGP) is the head of the Uttarakhand Police.[5]
No. | Name | Tenure | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Ashok Kant Sharan | 9 November 2000 | 30 April 2002 |
2 | Prem Dutt Raturi | 30 April 2002 | 15 June 2004 |
3 | Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya | 15 June 2004 | 31 Oct 2007 |
4 | Subhash Joshi | 31 October 2007 | 15 July 2010 |
Acting | Vijay Raghav Pant | 15 July 2010 | 29 July 2010 |
5 | Jyoti Swaroop Pande | 28 July 2010 | 12 April 2012 |
6 | Vijay Raghav Pant | 13 April 2012 | 30 September 2012 |
7 | Satyavrat Bansal | 30 September 2012 | 30 September 2013 |
8 | B. S. Sidhu | 30 September 2013 | 30 April 2016 |
9 | M. A. Ganapathy | 30 April 2016 | 25 July 2017 |
10 | Anil Raturi | 25 July 2017 | 30 November 2020 |
11 | Ashok Kumar | 30 November 2020 | 30 November 2023 |
12 | Abhinav Kumar | 30 November 2023 | Incumbent |
See also
- Uttarakhand Provincial Armed Constabulary
- Uttarakhand Fire and Emergency Services
- State Disaster Response Force (Uttarakhand)
- Provincial Police Service (Uttarakhand)
- List of departments of the government of Uttarakhand
- Police forces of the states and union territories of India
- Shaktiman, police horse who later died of injuries suffered while on duty
References
- ^ "Uttarakhand Budget Analysis 2021-22" (PDF). prsindia.org. 2022.
- ^ "Abhinav Kumar named 12th DGP of Uttarakhand". The Times of India. 30 November 2023.
- ^ "Uttarakhand police: Latest News & Videos, Photos about Uttarakhand police". The Economic Times. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ Uttarakhand Police
- ^ "Abhinav Kumar named 12th DGP of Uttarakhand". The Times of India. 30 November 2023.
External links
- Official website