Tauseef Ahmad
Srinagar, Apr 2: In a major administrative exercise, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday ordered a large-scale reshuffle in the police department, transferring and posting 82 Indian Police Service (IPS) and Jammu and Kashmir Police Service (JKPS) officers with immediate effect.
According to an order issued by the Home Department, the reshuffle includes changes at senior, middle and field-level positions across the Union Territory, covering key wings such as CID, Crime, Armed Police, Traffic, Security, SDRF, IR battalions and district policing.
Among the senior IPS officers, Tejinder Singh, DIG Rajouri-Poonch Range, has been posted as IGP CID, while Sarah Rizvi, DIG Udhampur-Reasi Range, has been transferred as IGP Crime. Shahid Mehraj Rather, DIG Armed Kashmir, has been appointed Director, Police Telecommunication.
The order further states that Shridhar Patil Daulu has been posted as DIG Jammu-Samba-Kathua, Haseeb-Ur-Rehman as DIG Traffic Kashmir, Nisha Nathyal as DIG IR Jammu, and Vinod Kumar as DIG North Kashmir Range. Maqsood-ul-Zaman has been shifted as DIG Armed Kashmir.
At the district and SSP level, the government ordered several important transfers, including Amod Nagpure Ashok as SSP Anantnag, Sudhanshu Dhama as SSP Ganderbal, Anuj Kumar as SSP Samba, and Hariprasad K.K. as SSP Budgam.
The reshuffle also covers a large number of JKPS officers, with postings in CID, Security, Traffic, Armed Police and IR battalions. Several officers were appointed as commandants of different battalions and posted to sensitive operational assignments.
