Punjab Govt orders police transfers, including 12 SSPs

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 30

Twelve districts in Punjab have got new police chiefs in a major reshuffle of 33 officers in the state police and the Vigilance Bureau ordered late Thursday night.

The notable among the newly posted Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs) includes Surendra Lamba (IPS), who was been given the charge of Mansa district. He was earlier posted as staff officer with DGP Dinkar Gupta. 

Assistant Inspector General  (AIG) Jasdeep Singh Saini is the new staff officer to the DGP now.

The other new SSPs and their districts include Vikramjit Duggal (Patiala), Jaspreet Singh Sidhu (Kapurthala), Dhruman H Nimbale (Tarn Taran), Dhruv Dahiya (Amritsar rural), Akhil Chaudhary (Ropar), Gulneet Singh Khurana (Pathankot), D Sudarvizhi (Muktsar), Bhupinderjit Singh Virk  (Bathinda), Satinder Singh (Jalandhar rural), Rachhpal Singh (Batala) and Navjot Singh (Hoshiarpur).

The new SSPs include eight Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre and four state police cadre officers. Most of the IPS officers are of the 2012 or subsequent batch. 

The Vigilance Bureau postings of SSPs are Mandeep Singh Sidhu and Gursharandeep Singh (station not specified) and Narendra Bhargava  (Bathinda).

Four of the 12 SSPs, including Vikramjeet Duggal, Dhruv Dahiya, Navjot Singh and Satinder Singh, were already commanding another police district. The administration has given them new districts.

Four Police Commissonerates have also got new Joint Police Commissioner, including one woman police officer Kanwar Deep Kaur, who has been posted Joint CP (Ludhiana rural).

The other three are Bhagirath Singh Meena, Joint CP (Ludhiana city); Charanjit Singh, Joint CP (Jalandhar city) and Rajbachan Singh Sandhu, Joint CP, Amritsar (headquarters).