HS Sidhu back as STF head

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HS Sidhu back as STF head

Friday, 19 July 2019 | PNS | Chandigarh

A day after elevating three IPS officers to the DGP-rank, the Punjab Government on Thursday conducted a major reshuffle exercise transferring 26 IPS, and five PPS officers including Harpreet Singh Sidhu who was given back the charge of the Government’s Special Task Force (STF) on drugs.

Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Sidhu, who was holding the post of special principal secretary to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, is once again heading the significant anti-drug wing a year after he was removed from the post following reports of a tussle between him and the then DGP Suresh Arora.

He would replace STF head Gurpreet Kaur Deo, who has been given the charge of ADGP (Crime).

After coming to power in 2017, the Chief Minister had set up the STF to combat drug menace in Punjab. He had especially brought Sidhu, who was at that time on central deputation in the Naxal-hit Chhattisgarh, to head the STF.

Earlier in the day, Deo was relieved from the additional charge of the Litigation Wing. But later in the evening, she was also divested of the charge of STF chief and was posted as ADGP Crime.

The State Government also shifted eight Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs) including PPS officer Sandeep Goel and IPS officer Dhruv Dahiya.

Goel, whose speech in a police-public interaction event admitting flaws in the police department went viral, has been shifted from Ferozepur to Ludhiana (Rural) as the district police chief.

Dahiya, who has been posted as Tarn Taran SSP, has been shifted from Fatehgarh Sahib after his team claimed to have recovered Rs 16 crore from a Jalandhar priest.

The government has also given new postings to the three newly-promoted DGPs — Prabodh Kumar has been posted as special DGP and Bureau of Investigation director, Rohit Choudhary will be special DGP (Policy and Rules), and Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota has been elevated as special DGP (Armed Battalions, Jalandhar).

ADGP Praveen Kumar Sinha has been posted as officiating ADGP (Prisons) after Chaudhary has been moved out of Prisons Department following his promotion to DGP level. Notably, there have been one after another incidents of violence in the state jails.

Sinha, who will now be heading Prisons department, is heading the SIT probing the Rs 16-crore cash scandal involving a Jalandhar priest.

He had arrested two police constables from Kerala after they ran off with nearly Rs seven crore recovered from the priest.

Besides, Vivek Sheel Soni has been posted Ferozepur SSP, while Kuldeep Singh has been given the charge of Mohali SSP.

IPS officers Deepak Hilory, and Gaurav Garg have been posted as SSPs of Pathankot and Hoshiarpur, respectively. PPS officers Bhupinder Singh and Narinder Bhargav have been posted as SSPs of Fazilka and Mansa, respectively.

Senior IPS officer ADGP Gaurav Yadav has been given additional charge of the Litigation Wing.

Senior IPS officer Ishwar Singh has been posted as ADGP (Law and Order), while Jitendra Kumar Jain will also hold additional charge of the Director State Crime Records Bureau Punjab.

ADGP Shashi Prabha Dwivedi has been given additional charge of the Women Affairs, while ADGP RN Dhoke will look after the additional charge of the ADGP Security and the Community Affairs and NRI, Punjab.

B Chandra Sekhar has been posted as inspector-general (IG) Crime (Bureau of Investigation), while Pramod Ban has been posted as IG Information Technology and Telecommunications.

G Nageswara Rao has been given the charge of IG STF, while Balkar Singh has been posted as IG Special Investigations. LK Yadav has been given the charge of IG-cum-Director Vigilance Bureau and Mohnish Chawla has been posted as IG-cum-Director Economic Offence Wing (EOW).

Shive Kumar Verma has been posted as IG Crime and Jaskaran Singh has been given additional charge of IG Disaster Management, Punjab. IPS officer Gurpreet Singh Toor has been posted as DIG STF, the spokesperson said.

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