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Punjab: First Time 2 Women IPS Officers Become DGP, IPS Gurpreet Kaur Deo and Shashi Prabha Dwivedi Promoted to The DGP Rank

They are among the seven Additional DGP rank officers who have been promoted as DGPs. The total number of people holding the top police rank in the state has now gone up to 13. All the promotion recipients are IPS officers of the 1993 batch.
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This is happening the first time in Punjab. Two women IPS officers are going to become Director General of Police (DGP). Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann led Punjab Government has promoted seven IPS officers to the rank of Director General of Police in Level-16 of the Pay Matrix with immediate effect. When this order came out, history created in Punjab Police Department.

1993 batch IPS officers, Ms Gurpreet Kaur Deo and Ms Shashi Prabha Dwivedi became the first women IPS officers of Punjab to get the post of DGP, infact ‘First women DGP in Punjab’.

They are among the seven Additional DGP rank officers who have been promoted as DGPs. The total number of people holding the top police rank in the state has now gone up to 13. All the promotion recipients are IPS officers of the 1993 batch.

Senior-most among the promotees, Deo is also the first woman IPS officer in Punjab Police. She was appointed as IPS officer on September 5, 1993. She had earlier served as Additional DGP (Community Affairs Division and Women Affairs), ADGP-cum-chief of anti-drug Special Task Force, Chief Vigilance Officer, ADGP (Crime), Bureau of Investigation and ADGP (Administration).

Dwivedi, who was posted as Additional DGP (Railways) with additional charge of modernization, is also of 1993-batch but had joined as IPS officer on September 4, 1994. “I am elated to make it to the top rank and thankful to the government,” Dwivedi said.

Among others Dwivedi had earlier served as ADGP (Human Resource Development) with additional charge of Women and Child Affairs and ADGP (Lokpal) with additional charge of Nodal Officer, Punjab Police Election Cell.

Others who have been promoted to DGP rank include Varinder Kumar (Director, Vigilance Bureau); Rajendra Namdeo Dhoke (chief of Internal Security and Mining Enforcement Directorate), Ishwar Singh (ADGP, Human Resource Development with additional charge of nodal officer for Welfare and State Election); Jitendra Kumar Jain (ADGP, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited), and Satish Kumar Asthana (ADGP, Policy & Rules).


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