Dattatray Padsalgikar | |
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Deputy National Security Advisor of India | |
Assumed office 29 October 2019 [1] Servingwith Pankaj Saran, Rajinder Khanna | |
Preceded by | R. N. Ravi |
41st Director General of Police of Maharashtra Police | |
In office 1 July 2018 –28 February 2019 | |
Preceded by | Satish Mathur |
Succeeded by | Subodh Kumar Jaiswal |
40th Police Commissioner of Mumbai | |
In office 31 January 2016 –29 June 2018 | |
Preceded by | Ahmad Javed |
Succeeded by | Subodh Kumar Jaiswal |
Personal details | |
Born | Solapur,Bombay State,India | 26 August 1958
Awards | President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service. Police Medal for Meritorious Service. 50th Anniversary Independence Medal. |
Military service | |
Years of service | 1982–2019 |
Rank | Director General of Police |
Dattatray "Datta" Padsalgikar (born 26 August 1958) 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.
An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1982 batch,Padsalgikar was on deputation to the central government in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for a few years until he was named as the new Mumbai police commissioner in 30 January 2016 succeeding Ahmad Javed. He served as CP till 29 June 2018,when he was appointed as Maha DGP. On 29 October 2019,he was appointed as Deputy National Security Advisor of India. [1]
Padsalgikar hails from a town on the Solapur-Bijapur border,Mr Padsalgikar has a master's degree in French literature from Pune. After serving initial postings as Additional Superintendent of Police in Nagpur,Karad and Nashik he was promoted and went on to serve as Superintendent of Police in Osmanabad and Satara,following which he served his first stint in the IB in the early 90s. [2]
Padsalgikar would be the first Maharashtrian police chief of Mumbai after almost a decade,after D N Jadhav who held the office between March 2007 and February 2008. [3]
Padsalgikar has worked as Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Detection in the crime branch,DCP in Economic Offences Wing,DCP in South Mumbai (Zone 1),DCP of the Bandra-Jogeshwari stretch and Superintendent of Police in Osmanabad and Satara. In the IB,he has worked in Nagaland,New Delhi and Washington (US). [4] Padsalgikar has said that fighting terror and ISIS will be one of his top priorities.
He is also known to be an excellent badminton player and an athlete. [2]
Assistant superintendent of police in Nagpur and Karad (Satara) DCP (Detection) |
Mumbai crime branch DCP (Economic Offences Wing) |
DCP (Bandra Zone) |
Superintendent of police in Osmanabad and Satara (IB) |
Nagaland,New Delhi and Washington DC (IB) |
Joint and additional director in Mumbai |
Mumbai Police Commissioner |
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