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 the British Empire.
The Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) is the foreign intelligence agency of India. The agency's primary function is gathering foreign intelligence,counter-terrorism,counter-proliferation,advising Indian policymakers,and advancing India's foreign strategic interests. It is also involved in the security of India's nuclear programme.
C. D. Sahay is a retired IPS officer who served as the chief of Research and Analysis Wing,India's external intelligence agency,from 1 April 2003 to 31 January 2005. He is a Karnataka cadre IPS officer of the 1967 batch.
Ashok Chaturvedi,IPS was the chief of India's external intelligence agency the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) from 1 February 2007 to 31 January 2009. Chaturvedi succeeded P.K.H. Tharakan,a 1968 batch officer of the IPS Kerala cadre who retired on 31 January 2007.
Gazetted officers include all the Indian Police Service officers which are Group A 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.
Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary is an Indian politician who was the Governor of Meghalaya,a state in northeast India,from 2008 to 2013. Previously he was an IPS officer,director-general of National Security Guards (NSG) and the Border Security Force (BSF).
Krishan Chander Verma was the Director of Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW),the external intelligence agency of India,his official designation was Secretary (R). He did his schooling from Mayo College,Ajmer. He belongs to the 1971 Jharkhand IPS cadre. He started his career at the Intelligence Bureau,was appointed as head of the Narcotics Control Bureau in 2005,and was later elevated to the position of Secretary (Security) and also served as Internal Security Adviser to Home Minister. He was laterally transferred to head R&AW after Ashok Chaturvedi retired from the post on 31 January 2009. One of the major challenges for K. C. Verma had been professionalise and streamline the agency,which had been in news in recent times for various scandals and controversies.
Devarayapuram Ramasamy Kaarthikeyan is a former Indian Police Service officer from Tamil Nadu,and a former director of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Director General,National Human Rights Commission.
Raman Srivastava was a 1973 batch Indian Police Service officer who served as the Director general of police in Kerala Police from February 2005 till November 2008. He is also a former Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF),the border patrol agency of the Government of India.
Radhavinod Raju was an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. He joined the police service in 1975 as Jammu and Kashmir cadre batch. The character Sethurama Iyer,who is the main protagonist of CBI film series in Malayalam films,portrayed by Mammootty is said to have been inspired by Radha Vinod Raj.
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 secretary from 2000 to 2003. He retired as a career intelligence officer with 31 years of service on 31 March 2003.
Alok Joshi was chief of Research and Analysis Wing,the external intelligence agency of India.
Rajinder Khanna is the current additional National Security Advisor of India,formerly since 2018 he served as the secretary of the National security council secretariat he was also the former chief of Research and Analysis Wing,the external intelligence agency of India. He joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1978 and was allotted to Odisha cadre. From 1979 to 1985,he held several important posts including Superintendent of Police in Puri and Ganjam districts in Odisha. As the Superintendent of Police in Puri,he received a number of commendations from the Chief Minister for eradicating dacoity in the district.
M. Abdul Sathar Kunju is a 1963 Batch officer of Kerala Cadre of Indian Police Service who retired as the 21st Chief of Kerala Police in 1997.
The Chief Secretary is the top-most executive official and senior-most civil servant of the state government. The Chief Secretary is the ex-officio head of the state Civil Services Board,the State Secretariat,the state cadre Indian Administrative Service and all civil services under the rules of business of the state government. The Chief Secretary acts as the principal advisor to the chief minister on all matters of state administration.
Anil Dhasmana is former Chief of National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO). He was also the Chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW),India's foreign intelligence service. He was appointed as the Chief of R&AW as the post fell vacant on 31 January 2017 following the retirement of the incumbent.
Rajiv Jain was the Director of the Intelligence Bureau of India. He belonged to 1980 batch of the Indian Police Service. He is from the Jharkhand cadre and was appointed on 1 January 2017 as the 26th Director of Intelligence Bureau after the retirement of Dineshwar Sharma and served there till 26 June 2019. Post,retirement he was appointed as a member of the National Human Rights Commission of India where he served from 1 June 2021 till 1 June 2024.
Dr. K. Madhukar Shetty (1971-2018) was an Indian Police Service officer of 1999 batch of Karnataka Cadre. He is remembered for working against illegal mining in Karnataka.
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.
Padmakar Ganapat Halarnkar was Commissioner of Police,Bangalore City,Karnataka state,India and also Director General of Central Reserve Police Force. He was born in 1932 at Rajiwadi near Pune. He was Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of 1956 batch,Karnataka cadre. He was the Commissioner of Bangalore city from 1983 to 1986. He was Director General Central Reserve Police Force from 1 April 1988 to 30 September 1990. He was considered as honest,strict police officer who resisted pressure from politicians. He was a native of Pednem,Goa. He died on 2 January 2021 at Bengaluru at the age of 88 years.
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