The Union government, on the evening of 30.12.2023, approved the empanelment of 20 officers for the position of Joint Secretary or JS equivalent in the Government of India. Of the 20 officers, 17 are from the Indian Police Service (IPS), indicating a strategic move by the government.

The names of these officers are as follows:

1. IPS Sumit Sharan (1997:TN)
2. IPS Maheshwar Dayal (1997:TN)
3. IFS Shiv Pal Singh (1997:UP)
4. Alok Tripathi (IRTS:1999)
5. IPS S. Praveen Kumar (2002:OD)
6. IPS Subramanyeswara Rao (2002:KN)
7. IPS Rajesh Kumar (2002:TG)
8. IPS Aparna Kumar (2002:UP)
9. IPS Deepak Choudhary (2002:AM)
10. IPS Sachi Ghildyal (2002:UP)
11. IPS Sonia Narang (2002:KN)
12. IPS Saket Kumar Singh (2002:JH)
13. IPS Jose Mohan (2002:RJ)
14. IPS Shalin (2001:BH)
15. IPS Kaustubh Sharma (2001:PB)
16. IPS Cheekatla Stalin Babu (2001:MH)
17. IPS Santosh Varma A.R. (2001:KL)
18. IPS Damor Deepak Motibhai (2001:TN)
19. IPS Vineet Brij Lal (2001:AP)
20. Mansoor Hasan Khan (IDAS:2002)