After creating the post of special commissioner of Mumbai police, Eknath Shinde led Maharashtra government has appointed 1994 batch senior IPS officer Deven Bharti as the first Special Commissioner of Police of Mumbai.
As per an official, the state Home Department issued the appointment order. IPS officer Vivek Phansalkar is currently the Mumbai police commissioner.
54 old Bharti hails from Darbhanga, Bihar. He did his matriculation from Jharkhand and graduated from Delhi School of Economics.
He worked in Mumbai as DCP, Zone 7 (Bandra to Andheri) and as DCP, Crime Branch. He was additional commissioner of police, crime branch, and subsequently joint commissioner (Law and order). Bharti was Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) in the state from 2014 to 2019. Subsequently, he was shifted to the Anti-Terrorism Squad on promotion to additional Director General of Police (ADGP).
Bharti was made joint managing director of the Maharashtra State Security Corporation, which was considered to be a relatively insignificant posting, when the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government came to power in Maharashtra 2019.
On December 13, 2022, Bharti was replaced by the joint commissioner (traffic) Rajvardhan, and since then he had been awaiting a new posting along with former ATS chief Vinit Agarwal, former Thane police commissioner Bipin Kumar Singh, and former Anti-Corruption Bureau chief Prabhat Kumar, the official said
