The Naveen Patnaik government has shifted nine senior IPS officers in the state. Some of them had recently returned from the Central deputation after completing maximum seven-years tenure.
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- Mr Arun Kumar Ray IPS (Odisha 1988) presently on repatriation from Central Deputation , has been appointed as Additional Director General of Police(ADGP), Communication, Odisa.
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- Mr Lalit Das IPS (Odisha 1992) presently Additional Director General of Police(ADGP), Communication, Odisha, has been transferred as Additional Director General of Police(ADGP), Hdqrs, Odisha.
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- Mr Y K Jethwa IPS (Odisha 1994) presently on repatriation from Central Deputation , has been appointed as Additional Director General of Police(ADGP)- Law & Order, Odisha.
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- Mrs Ritu Arora IPS (Odisha 1995) presently on repatriation from Central Deputation , has been appointed as OSD- Home Department, Odisha .
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- Mrs Rekha Lohani IPS (Odisha 1997) presently IGP- Modernisation, , Odisha, has been transferred and posted as Additional Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar-Cutack. She had was earlier posted as IG (Modernisation and had returned to her parent cadre after completion of seven years of central deputation tenure only last year.
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Mr Lalit Das’s predecessor Mr Vinaytosh Mishra, a 1993 batch IPS officer, is appointed Director, State Crime Records Bureau while Sanjay Kumar Singh of 1996-batch has become IG, Modernisation. He has replaced the 1998-batch officer Rajesh Kumar who will now be the in-charge of State Forensic Science Laboratory while Anupama James, a 2013 batch officer has been shifted from SP Dhenkanal to Vigilance department as Superintendent of police.