The Mumbai Police is the police department of the city of Mumbai,Maharashtra. It is a part of Maharashtra Police and has the primary responsibilities of law enforcement and investigation within the limits of Mumbai. The force's motto is "Sadrakṣaṇāya Khalanigrahaṇāya".
The Indian Police Service is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948,a year after India became independent from British rule.
Law enforcement in India is imperative to keep justice and order in the nation. Indian law is enforced by a number of agencies. Unlike many federal nations,the constitution of India delegates the maintenance of law and order primarily to the states and territories.
The National Security Advisor is the senior official on the National Security Council of India,and the chief advisor to the Prime Minister of India on national security policy and international affairs. In 2019,the term of Ajit Doval the current NSA was extended for another 5-year term,and has been assigned the rank of a Union Cabinet Minister and ranks at the seventh position in the Indian Order of Precedence.
The Ministry of Home Affairs,or simply the Home Ministry,is a ministry of the Government of India. It is mainly responsible for the maintenance of internal security and domestic policy. It is headed by Minister of Home Affairs.
The Aviation Research Centre (ARC) is India's imagery intelligence organisation,a part of the Directorate General of Security,run by the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). It started functioning in November 1962,in the wake of the Sino-Indian War,as an extension of the Intelligence Bureau,but placed under the Ministry of External Affairs.
Puri is an Indian surname from the Dashnam Goswami Brahmin or Gosain Caste. Puri is among the 10 surname of goswami community Bharti,Giri,Puri,Saraswati,Aashram,Parvat,Sagar,Van,Aranya,Tirth.
Gazetted officers include all the Indian Police Service officers which are Class I officers of the cadre and all State Police Services officers of and above the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police. All are arranged in a hierarchical order.
Bibhuti Bhusan Nandy (1940–2008) was an Indian IPS officer,intelligence agent,former National Security Advisor of Mauritius and a columnist. He served in the Intelligence Bureau,Research and Analysis Wing and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police in various capacities,playing a key role in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
The Odisha Police abbreviated as either OP or OPS,is the law enforcement agency for the state of Odisha in India. It is headquartered in Cuttack,the former capital of Odisha. The Odisha Police is headed by a Director General of Police,currently Sunil Kumar Bansal,IPS and falls under the purview of the state's Home Department of the Government of Odisha. The sanctioned personnel strength of Odisha Police is 72,145;comprising women as one-third of it total sanctioned strength in the directly recruited posts of civil constable,sub-inspector and deputy superintendent of police. This feat makes it one of the foremost in that aspect among the police services of India.
Vikram Sood is the former head of India's foreign intelligence agency,the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW),and an advisor to the Observer Research Foundation,an independent public policy think tank in New Delhi. Sood was an officer of the Indian Postal Service (IPoS) before he joined the intelligence organisation R&AW and later served as its spymaster from 2000 to 2003. He retired as a career intelligence officer with 31 years of service on 31 March 2003.
Neeraj Kumar is a former Commissioner of Delhi Police who retired from the Indian Police Service (IPS) on 31 July 2013. Neeraj Kumar belonged to 1976 batch and AGMUT cadre and has recently completed his tenure as the Chief Advisor to the BCCI for their Anti Corruption &Security Unit (ACSU).
Director General (DG) is the head of the Indian National Security Guard (NSG),the federal contingency deployment force that was created to deal with terrorism in India. The DG is selected by the Home Minister (MHA). In the first thirty-one years since its creation in 1984,the NSG has had twenty-eight DGs,with an average tenure of one year and few months. All the selected DGs have been officers from the Indian Police Service (IPS).
Dattatray "Datta" Padsalgikar is a senior Indian IPS officer of Maharashtra Cadre,who was,on 30 June 2018,named as the new Director General of Police of Maharashtra and succeeded Satish Mathur.
Pramod Kumar Thakur or P. K. Thakur,is a retired Indian Police Service (I.P.S.) officer of Bihar state in India,currently serving as Information commissioner in the state of Bihar. He served as Director General of Police of Bihar Police from June 2014 until his retirement in February 2018. He belongs to the I.P.S. batch of 1980. He has also served as Director General in Bihar. He was awarded with National Security Guard Disc for his outstanding work in the Central Police Organization as Inspector General (Administration). He was appointed on the post of Information commissioner of Bihar State Information Commission in October 2018.
Rajendra Prasad Sharma is a retired Odisha cadre IPS officer. He is the current Member of Lokayukta,Odisha. He was also the former Director General of Police of Odisha. He was also the former Director of Vigilance in the state of Odisha. Sharma is from Rajasthan.
Surajit Kar Purkayastha is a retired senior Indian Police Service officer of 1985 West Bengal cadre who served as the State Security Advisor of West Bengal from 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2021. Prior to that,he served as Director General of Police of West Bengal and was the 36th Police Commissioner of Kolkata.
Edavelath Nalamveetil Rammohan was an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1965 batch,who served in many of India’s police and paramilitary organisations. He retired as Director General (DG) of the Border Security Force (BSF),a leading paramilitary force of India,tasked with guarding the country’s borders.
The Directorate General of Security is an organisation of covert operations under India's Cabinet Secretariat. It is one of the four legally defined intelligence organisations of India and listed in the Schedule of the Intelligence Organisations Act,1985,the other three being I.B.,R&AW and NTRO. Since 1971,the Secretary,Research and Analysis Wing has usually held the post of Director General. This organisation used to be composed of Special Service Bureau,Aviation Research Centre,Special Frontier Force and Chief Inspectorate of Armaments. Since the shifting of SSB and CIOA to the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2001,DGS consists of ARC and SFF only. The Special Group,a non-Tibetan and Sarsawa-based unit of SFF,is also a DGS component.
Pankaj Kumar Singh was the 29th Director General of BSF,and an Indian Police Service officer of 1988 batch. He is the son of Ex BSF DG Prakash Singh. He has been appointed as Deputy National Security Advisor of India in Jan 2023 for a period of 2 years.
