28 senior police officers, 15 SSPs and 210 DSPs reshuffled in Punjab Police
The government in a separate order, transferred 210 ASPs and DSPs in the state making it the biggest reshuffle recently
New Delhi, August 23
The Punjab government transferred 28 senior police officers, including 15 senior superintendents of police (SSPs).
Satinder Singh, the Amritsar Rural SSP, who was recently promoted as deputy inspector general, has been posted as DIG, border range. He replaces Rakesh Kaushal, who is the new DIG, crime.
Naveen Singla, who was DIG, intelligence, succeeds Harmanbir Singh Gill as DIG, Jalandhar range. Gill has been transferred as joint director, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur.
Tarn Taran SSP Ashwani Kapur has been transferred as DIG, Faridkot range, while Faridkot district police chief Harjeet Singh, who was also promoted recently, will be DIG in the Vigilance Bureau.
IPS officers awaiting postings Gurpreet Singh Bhullar and Gurmeet Singh Chauhan have been posted at IGP, provisioning, and AIG, Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF), respectively.
Bathinda SSP Deepak Pareek, a 2014-batch IPS officer, is the new Mohali SSP, while Sandeep Kumar Garg has been appointed AIG, intelligence-III, Mohali.
Jalandhar Rural SSP Ankur Gupta replaces Vivek Sheel Soni as the Moga district police chief, while the latter has been transferred as AIG, personnel-1. Punjab Police Service officer Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh is the new Jalandhar Rural SSP.
Mansa SSP Nanak Singh replaces Varun Sharma as Patiala district police chief. Sharma has been transferred as AIG, provisioning with additional charge of Sadak Surakhiya Force (SSF) SSP.
Bhagirath Singh Meena is the new Mansa SSP, while Tushar Gupta replaces him as Muktsar SSP.
Gaurav Toora, AIG, provisioning, has been transferred as the Tarn Taran SSP, while, PPS officer Gagan Ajit Singh replaces IPS officer Simrat Kaur as the Malerkotla SSP. Simrat Kaur has been given the charge of AIG, counter intelligence, Patiala.
The government in a separate order, transfers two more IPS officers- ASP Jayant Puti from Lushiana to Dera Bassi and Vaibhav Chaudhary from Deras Bassi to Patiala. In the same order, the government reshuffled 208 deputy SPs in a major shift in Punjab Police.
