Gandhinagar, March 6 || The Gujarat government has carried out a major reshuffle in the state police administration, transferring 37 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers and assigning them new responsibilities.
The changes, implemented with immediate effect in public interest, include several upgrades and downgrades of posts to accommodate officers of the appropriate rank.
The reshuffle also comes ahead of upcoming municipal corporation and district panchayat elections in major cities of the state.
Among the key changes, 2010-batch IPS officer Nirlipt Rai has been transferred from the State Monitoring Cell (SMC) in Gandhinagar and appointed Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of the Rajkot Range.
Ashok Kumar, a 2003-batch IPS officer who was serving as Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the Rajkot Range, has been transferred and appointed IGP, CID (Intelligence), in Gandhinagar.
Senior IPS officer Dr Shamsher Singh of the 1991 batch has been appointed Director of Civil Defence and Commandant General of Home Guards in Ahmedabad.
Singh had recently returned to Gujarat from deputation with the Border Security Force and had been waiting for a posting since January.
In another key appointment, 2005-batch IPS officer Raghvendra Vatsa has been transferred from the post of Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) in Surat city and appointed IGP of the Ahmedabad Range.