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.
Ajit Kumar Doval is a bureaucrat,former spymaster and the current National Security Advisor (NSA) of India. Doval is the longest serving NSA,currently serving his third consecutive five-year term since he was first appointed in May 2014 following the election of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India. He is a former Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the Kerala cadre.
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 National Security Council (NSC) of India is an executive government body tasked with advising the prime Minister of India on matters of national security and foreign policy. It was established by the former prime minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 19 November 1998,with Brajesh Mishra as the first National Security Advisor.
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.
Gazetted officers in India include all Indian Police Service (IPS) officers,who are classified as Group A officers,as well as State Police Service officers at the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and above. These officers are organized in a structured 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 Y.B. Khurania,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 its 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.
The State Police Services (SPS) is an umbrella term for police services under different state governments in India. In India,police is a state subject and each state has its own police service. For example,Maharashtra Police Service (MPS) for Maharashtra Police or Provincial Police Service (PPS) for Uttar Pradesh Police. Its counterpart in the central government is the Indian Police Service (IPS),which is a higher civil service. Recruitments are done through the respective state's Public Service Commission (PSC).
The Manipur Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Manipur in 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 secretary 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).
Dattatray "Datta" Padsalgikar is a retired 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.
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.
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.
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 January 2023 for a period of 2 years.
The Lucknow Police Commissionerate is the primary law enforcement agency for the city of Lucknow,the capital of Uttar Pradesh,India. It is a police unit of Uttar Pradesh Police and has the primary responsibilities of law enforcement and investigation in Lucknow district.
Manoj Malaviya is a 1986 batch Indian Police Service officer who is currently the State Police Advisor (SPA),West Bengal,an ex-cadre post equivalent to DGP rank. Before this he served as the Director General of West Bengal Police from August 2021 to December 2023. He has held several important positions in his career,including Additional Commissioner of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security in Delhi,and Deputy Commissioner of Police in Kolkata Police. He was promoted to the rank of Director General in 2017 and held the post till 2023.
T V Ravichandran is the current Deputy National Security Advisor of India. and the former special director of the Intelligence Bureau (India). He is the former Director General of Police in Tamil Nadu and IPS of 1990 batch in Tamil Nadu cadre.
