Vineet Kumar Goyal, a senior IPS officer of Kolkata Police was appointed as the new Commissioner of Police on Thursday. A 1994batch officer, Mr. Goyal was the additional director general (ADG) of the state police’s Special Task Force (STF), in his previous posting. He will be the 44th commissioner of police in Kolkata.
Other officers who have been transferred in Kolkata police are:
- Gyanwant Singh, ADG and the inspector general of police (IGP) of West Bengal CID, was given the additional charge of the state STF.
- Praveen Kumar Tripathi, the DIG of Malda Range, was made the additional commissioner of Kolkata Police.
- Sukesh Kumar Jain was named the DIG of state traffic police.
- Harikrishna Pal, the superintendent of police (SP) of Kalimpong, was made the DCP of Kolkata Police’s STF, in place of Aparajita Rai.
- Aparajita Rai was made the new Kalimpong SP.
- Alipuduar SP Bholanath Pandey was made the SP of Jalpaiguri,replacing Y Raghuvamshi.
- Raghuvamshi was made the new SP of Alipurduar.
- Amitabha Maiti, DC (headquarters) of Siliguri Metropolitan Police, was named the SP of Malda district.
