The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home
By Dheeraj Fartode
City police have decided to downscale ‘Z’ category security cover of former minister Satish Chaturvedi to a modest X category under which only few police personnel are deployed without usual pomp and show.
Special Branch (SB) of City police has sent a proposal to state government to provide X-category security for the minister instead of existing Z-category due to lack of any security threat to him. Chaturvedi enjoyed security cover for one decade.
Satish Chaturvedi |
Police Inspector of SB M A Patil in his letter to MLA Khopde said that the police had reviewed the security cover for former minister on February 4, 2012 and sent a report to Director General of Police (DCP) of State police to withdraw Z-category security cover. The police again reviewed the security cover on September 10, 2012 and sent a proposal to DGP to provide X-category security cover.
MLA Khopde in a press release claimed that Chaturvedi hardly faces any security threat and was not occupying any important post. Instead of utilising police personnel to secure city and safeguard womenfolk, a large number of police force is deployed in the security cover extended to Chaturvedi, he claimed.
Home Minister R R Patil has already decided to review security cover of all political persons and downscale them in view of popular outrage. Now the security cover will be provided to only those with tangible threat perception and as advised by intelligence agencies.
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