Harish Kumar Gupta

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Harish Kumar Gupta, IPS [1]
Born (1965-08-02) 2 August 1965 (age 58) [1]
Jammu and Kashmir (state) [2]
Other namesHarish K. Gupta
Education
Alma mater
Police career
Indian Police Service Andhra Pradesh Cadre
Service years10 October 1992 [1] -Present
StatusHead of Police Force (HoPF) [4]
Rank Director General of Police.png Director General of Police [5]
Badge no.19921011 [1] of 1992 [6] batch (45 Regular Recruit)
Awards

Harish Kumar Gupta, IPS, AUSP [1] PPMDS [1] PMMS [1] (born 2 August 1965 [1] ) is the present [7] Director General of Police [8] (Head of Police Force) [9] of Andhra Pradesh Police with effect from 6 May 2024. [10] He was appointed on the advice [11] of Election Commission of India. [9] He belongs to the 1992 [1] batch (45 Regular Recruit) of the Indian Police Service. [12] Harish Kumar Gupta hails from Jammu and Kashmir (state). [1]

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Prior to becoming the Head of Police Force, he was serving as Principal Secretary (Home) [13] [1] from 19 May 2022. [1] Additionally, he was also holding the position of Director General of Prisons and Correctional Services. His career spanning over three decades began in the Nineties in Undivided Andhra Pradesh. After the bifurcation of the state in 2014, he was retained in the residuary Andhra Pradesh.

Harish Kumar Gupta's appointment as Director General of Police (Head of Police Force) of Andhra Pradesh Police comes at a crucial juncture when Andhra Pradesh goes for simultaneous elections, both to the 2024 Indian general election and the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election on 13 May 2024. His elevation, barely a week [14] before the elections has raised eyebrows, what with the opposition parties accusing his batchmate and predecessor K. V. Rajendranath Reddy, IPS of being partisan. [15]

Early life and education

Scholastic and Collegiate studies

Harish Kumar Gupta was born in Jammu and Kashmir (state). [16] He pursued his education in the town of Jammu. He schooled at the Government Sri Ranbir Model Higher Secondary School and then joined the Government Gandhi Memorial Science College from where he earned an undergraduate degree in sciences. Harish Kumar Gupta also pursued a course leading to an undergraduate law degree.

Other courses

As part of his interest and learning, Harish Kumar also pursued certificate and diploma courses at University of Cambridge, Cambridge (England), [3] University of Louisiana, Louisiana (United States), [3] the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad [3] and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. [3]

Career

1992 batch (45 Regular Recruit)

After clearing the examinations conducted by the Union Public Service Commission, Harish Kumar chose the Indian Police Service and underwent training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie followed by the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad. He was at the SVPNPA between 1991 and 1992 during the Directorships of P. D. Malaviya, IPS [17] and Sankar Sen, IPS. [17] Among those in the 1992 batch (45 [17] Regular Recruit) hailing from Andhra Pradesh Cadre include P. S. R. Anjaneyulu, IPS, [17] K. V. Rajendranath Reddy, IPS [17] and Nalin Prabhat, IPS. [17]

Harish Kumar was inducted into the Indian Police Service on 10 October 1992 [18] and assigned the Undivided Andhra Pradesh Cadre.

Undivided Andhra Pradesh

Beginning as a Probationer for a year from 1992 to 1993, Harish Kumar served in notable positions, raising up the ranks of the Indian Police Service. He was Assistant Superintendent of Police [18] in the districts of Khammam, Medak and Peddapalli town. He then became Additional Superintendent of Police, serving from 1996 to 1997 [18] in Karimnagar district and then moved over to Operations, serving in Nalgonda district. In 1997, [18] he became Superintendent of Police in Krishna district. Harish Kumar moved to Hyderabad by the end of 1999, assuming the position of Commandant of Andhra Pradesh Special Police 1st Battalion, Yousufguda. In mid-2002, he shifted to the Criminal Investigation Department (India), Hyderabad. In December 2002, during the Commissionerate of M. V. Krishna Rao, IPS, he was appointed as the Deputy Commissioner of Police, heading South Zone, Hyderabad City Police. Later in 2004, he went to Nalgonda district where he served for two years as its Superintendent of Police.

In the year 2006, [18] Harish Kumar rose to the ranks of Deputy Inspector General of Police, serving as Joint Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City Police in the departments of Administration and Special Branch. This was during the Commissionerates of A. K. Mohanty, IPS, Balwinder Singh, IPS and B. Prasada Rao, IPS. In 2011, he moved to the Vigilance and Enforcement Department. The same year, in 2011, [18] he was promoted as Inspector-General of Police, overseeing Guntur range. [19] In the ensuing year in 2012, he was moved to Legal [20] department. In 2013, Harish Kumar was re-assigned Law and Order Department. During 2013 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Harish Kumar Gupta was Special Observer on behalf of the Election Commission of India to Ampati Assembly constituency in Meghalaya. [21]

Andhra Pradesh

With the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014, Harish Kumar preferred Telangana cadre. [22] Based on a ratio of allocation arrived upon by the Government of India, he was retained in the residual Andhra Pradesh. [23] However, Harish Kumar contested his allocation before the Central Administrative Tribunal, urging it to allot him to Telangana cadre. [24] His Lawyer Jonnalagadda Sudheer found fault with the allocation list, raising issues over the cadre allocation. [25]

In the residuary Andhra Pradesh, Harish Kumar continued to hold the position of Inspector-General of Police [18] in the Departments of Law and Order and Technical Services from 2014 until 2017. [18] He was then promoted as Additional Director General of Police. Over the next six years, from 2017 to 2022, he headed the Departments of Law and Order, Provisioning and Logistics and Home Guards. During this period, he was also designated as Nodal Police Officer at the service of students from Jammu and Kashmir (state) facing difficulty. [26] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, he became Chairperson, [27] State Level Police Recruitment Board [28]

In early 2022, Harish Kumar got promoted as Director General of Police, heading the Railways for a month. He then became Principal Secretary (Home), also holding full additional charge of Prisons and Correctional Services. With the Prisons in India in need of reformation, Harish Kumar took the onus of implementing changes in line with directions of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of special remission to life convicts. [29] A regional training skill centre was set up in Rajahmundry Central Prison [30] for skill development of inmates. During the 8th National Conference of Heads of Prisons of all States and Union Territories held in the port city of Visakhapatnam on 11 and 12 September 2023, [31] Harish Kumar oversaw the arrangements for the conduct of the programme, held jointly by the Bureau of Police Research and Development and the Andhra Pradesh Police. He also addressed [32] the delegates in the presence of Balaji Srivastav, IPS and Ravi Joseph Lokku, IPS of the Bureau of Police Research and Development. In matters of inhuman conditions prevailing in Prisons in India, with special reference to those in the districts of Andhra Pradesh, Harish Kumar initiated the process of expansion of jails. [33] In order to promote Recidivism, Harish Kumar involved inmates of Nellore Central Prison in fabricating racks [34] for storing Electronic Voting Machines in strong rooms during the conduction of simultaneous 2024 Indian general election and the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.

On 6 May 2024, on the directions of Election Commission of India, he became the Head of Police Force of Andhra Pradesh Police. [35]

Awards and medals

As part of his service, Harish Kumar also won some medals, these include:

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K. V. Rajendranath Reddy, IPS
 Director General of Police,
Andhra Pradesh Police
6 May 2024 to present		Succeeded by
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