Nidigattu Sanjay

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Policeman
Nidigattu Sanjay
IPS
Born
Nidigattu Sanjay [1]

(1967-03-19) 19 March 1967 (age 57) [2]
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh [2]
Education AMIE, [3] LL.B. [2]
Alma mater Andhra University, Waltair
Police career
CountryIndia
Department Andhra Pradesh Police
BranchCrime Investigation Department
Service years Indian Police Service, 7 September 1997 [3] -present
Status
  • Chief of AP Crime Investigation Department,
  • Director General, AP Disaster Response and Fire Services (Full Additional Charge),
  • Director General, AP Police Personnel and Training (Full Additional Charge)
Rank Director General of Police.png Additional Director General of Police [2]
Badge no.19961080 [3] (Regular recruit of 50th batch [1] )
AwardsAntrik Suraksha Seva Padak (2004) [3]

Nidigattu Sanjay (born 19 March 1967 [2] ), better known as N. Sanjay, is a Silver jubilee 1996 [2] -batch Regular Recruit (RR) Indian Police Service Officer belonging to Andhra Pradesh cadre. [4] At present, Sanjay is the Chief of AP Criminal Investigation Department. He also holds full additional charges as Director-General of AP Disaster Response and Fire Services and as Director, AP Police Personnel and Training.

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Since 2017, [2] he has been Director [5] of Andhra Pradesh Police Academy in Anantapur, [6] until it was moved to Mangalagiri. On 27 January 2021, he was promoted to the rank of Additional Director General of Police. [7]

Earlier in 2021, the Policeman was assigned [4] a very sensitive role of Special Officer [4] to monitor [8] 2021 Andhra Pradesh local elections. He was appointed [4] by State Election Commissioner, N. Ramesh Kumar, IAS. [9] His brief included not only overseeing security arrangements for elections, and also apprising State Election Commission on efforts to contain malpractices. [10] The election exercise, which was held over four phases in February 2021, with a mechanism to receive [11] and redress [12] complaints. Along with Ramesh Kumar, Sanjay toured the state, initiating confidence-building measures among voters. [13]

Education

After schooling and collegiate studies in Visakhapatnam and New Delhi, [14] he took a diploma in mechanical engineering, [2] Sanjay joined Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, where he worked for nearly 8 years. [15] He also pursued a course in law [2] from Andhra University, Waltair. With his father's inspiration, [15] he prepared for civil services.

In the late nineties, Sanjay got selected to Indian Police Service and was trained in Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Shivarampally. He was a Regular Recruit of 50th [1] group of recruits at Police Academy, when it was under incumbency of Trinath Mishra, IPS. [16]

Career

Pre-bifurcation

Sanjay served in different capacities in undivided Andhra Pradesh in districts of Warangal, Nalgonda, Kurnool, Ananthapur, Nizamabad and Hyderabad. [15] In tackling crime, he faced Naxalism, Communalism and Factionalism and braved odds to rein in discipline.

In Hyderabad City, he served as Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Zone) during 2004 and was also Joint Commissioner of Police (Administration) in 2013. [17] During Sanjay's tenure as DCP in Hyderabad in 2004, his jurisdiction (West Zone) witnessed a sensational case of crime [18] that involved Tollywood film star Balakrishna. There was also a shootout of a Leopard, that irked Animal rights Activists, which he reminiscences [15] that it was rather necessitated due to force of circumstances. [19] Sanjay also served in Organisation for Counter Terrorist Operations (OCTOPUS) in 2010. [20]

Post-bifurcation

In 2014, during bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the Police Officer chose to remain in residual Andhra Pradesh. [21] On his preference, he was retained in Andhra Pradesh cadre. [22] Even after bifurcation, he continued to serve in Telangana as Joint managing director of Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh [23] until he was moved to Andhra Pradesh in early 2015 to serve as South Coastal Zone Guntur Range Inspector-general of police. [24] During his two-year tenure as IGP, Sanjay continued to let the presence of Police known, to serve as a deterrent to those breaking the law. [25]

In 2017, [2] he was transferred as Director, Andhra Pradesh Police Academy, where he has been involved in overseeing training component of Policemen of State Police Services. [26] During his first year in Ananthapur, there were 652 Stipendiary Cadet Trainee Sub-inspectors of Police of 2017 batch, out of which 165 [27] were women, a record 25% of total candidates passing out of the college. [28] In 2018, when Andhra Pradesh Police released a training manual on investigation in Human trafficking by then Director-General of police, R. P. Thakur in the presence of Social activist and Padma Shri awardee, Sunitha Krishnan, [29] Sanjay was present and reaffirmed the commitment of Police force to include the manual in Syllabi of Police Training Colleges across the State. With a spike in Cyber crimes and to better equip Police force, [30] the Policeman conducted short-term courses among its Policemen on aspects to deal with it. [31]

Under an E-governance project of National Crime Records Bureau under Government of India, Sanjay was made a Nodal Officer in 2019 [32] for Andhra Pradesh to oversee Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems.

Police appointments
Preceded by
P. V. Sunil Kumar
 Director [33] ,
AP Crime Investigation Department,
Guntur
23 January 2023 [34] – Present		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Madireddy Pratap
 Director-General,
AP Disaster Response and Fire Services,
Vijayawada
19 October 2022 - Present
(Full Additional Charge) [35] 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
 Managing Director
AP Police Housing Corporation
Mangalagiri
31 May 2021 - 19 October 2022		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
 Director,
AP Police Personnel and Training,
Anantapur/Mangalagiri
4 July 2017 [2] – Present
(Full Additional Charge) [36] 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
P. V. Sunil Kumar [23]
Inspector-general of police,
South coastal zone Guntur range
17 January 2015 [23] – 3 July 2017		Succeeded by
Vineet Brijlal [37]

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