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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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

Nagpur cops fail to respond to ‘call’ of Home Minister

HOME Minister Anil Deshmukh’s ‘call’ to Nagpur Police for sharing details of police personnel who are deployed in the field for implementation of lockdown is going ‘unanswered’. The local police officers have not yet compiled information of the bandobast duty staff with Nagpur Police Commissionerate which prompted DCP Headquarters Vikram Sali to flash a reminder to the lethargic officers for immediate compilation of data.
Sources informed that office of Home Minister Deshmukh wrote a letter to Nagpur Police Commissionerate to share the information of police personnel who are on the bandobast duty, including their name, buckle no, wife’s name and mobile number.
The office of DCP HQ Napgur Police had then sent letters to in-charges of all police stations and other branches directing them to immediately furnish the information of 10 constabulary staff who are deployed for bandobast duties of lockdown. However, many Police Inspectors had not taken the instructions seriously which prompted DCP HQ Sali to issue another order on Tuesday. 
The order stated that the police personnel are performing duties to contain the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the city. “Home Minister Anil Deshmukh will contact families of these police personnel on telephone,” the order said. 
“This office had issued an order to Police Stations, Branch and Departments for compiling data of police personnel. However, the information has not been received by this office so far which is causing delay in sending the information to office of Home Minister,” stated DCP Sali in the circular. 
Sources informed that being Home Minister Anil Deshmukh is waiting for list for a long time as he wanted to give nmoral support to the police families from his home town. “It would send a positive message among the police personnel. However, lethargic approach on part of a section of police officers is delaying the good cause,” he said. In Mumbai, Deshmukh had distributed Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), masks and sanitisers to Mumbai police personnel on Saturday.

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