Haryana Govt appoints new Police Commissioners in Gurugram and Faridabad, transfers 20 IPS officers

New Delhi, August 22

The Haryana Government has appointed 1998-batch IPS officer, Vikas Arora as the new police commissioner of Gurugram replacing Kala Ramachandran. 

Ramchandran has been now posted as ADGP (Administration) which was being handled by Arshinder Singh Chawla . Ramachandran took charge as Gurugram Police Commissioner in February 2022, and was the first woman to be appointed to the post since 2007. 

Ramachandran played a pivotal role by handling the situation in Gurugram following the communal flare-up in Nuh district. 

Arora was Faridabad’s Police Commissioner and now the government has appointed 2003 batch IPS officer, Rakesh Arya as the new CP of Faridabad. 

Arora served as Faridabad’s police chief for almost two years. Arora was instrumental in starting a crackdown on several crimes in Faridabad from drug peddling to crime nexuses and the management of communal issues.

As Ramchandran was supervising the cases of arson and riots registered in Gurugram following the Nuh riots, the new CP Vikas Arora has a new challenge to not only supervise the cases but bring in various measures to ensure law and order in the millennium city. 

The state has transferred 20 IPS officers in an order passed on August 22. 

Among those transferred, Om Prakash Singh, Additional DGP (Crime), who has been posted as ADGP, Haryana, State Narcotics Control Bureau, Panchkula headquarter, and ADGP, Cyber crime who relieved Amitabh Singh Dhillon from the charge of Inspector General of Police, HSNCB and IGP, Cyber crime, according to the government order. 

Mahendragarh SP Vikrant Bhushan has been made the Superintendent of Police, Sirsa. Gurugram's DCP East Nitish Agarwal has been given the responsibility of Mahendergarh's SP. Abhishek Jorwal was made SP of Kaithal and Virender Vij was transferred as DCP/Traffic, Gurugram and Deepak Gehlawat as DCP (HQ), Gurugram. 

Mamta Singh, ADGP (law and order) with additional charge of ADGP, Haryana Enforcement Bureau, and ADGP, Regional Training Centre, Bhondsi, Gurugram will now only hold the charge of ADGP (law and order) and ADGP, RTC, Bhondsi.

A S Chawla, ADGP, Administration, with additional charge of ADGP, Telecom-IT will be the new ADGP, Haryana Enforcement Bureau. He will also have additional charge of ADGP, Telecom-IT relieving Mamta Singh of her additional charge of ADGP, Haryana State Enforcement Bureau. M Ravi Kiran, ADGP, South Range, Rewari will now be the ADGP, Prisons, relieving Alok Kumar Roy of his additional charge as ADGP, Prisons. Rajender Kumar, IGP, CM Flying Squad, will be the new IGP, South Range. Amitabh Singh Dhillon, IGP, HSNCB, Madhuban, with additional charge of IGP, Modernisation, and IGP Cyber has been transferred and posted as IGP, Anti-Corruption Bureau with additional charge of IGP Modernisation and Welfare. K K Rao, ADGP, will be ADGP Rohtak range. 

Simardeep Singh, DIG, STF, Haryana, Bhondsi, will hold additional charge of DIG, Prisons.Virender Kumar, DCP, Traffic, Gurugram will also hold additional charge of DCP, East, Gurugram and in-charge of the Emergency Response System.Nitish Agarwal, DCP, East, Gurugram will be Superintendent of Police, Mahendergarh in place of Vikrant Bhushan, who will join as the new SP of Sirsa.