Law enforcement agency
The Chandigarh Police is the law enforcement agency for the Union Territory of Chandigarh in India. Chandigarh Police has its headquarters in sector 9 D, Chandigarh. The head of the state police is the Director General of Police of Chandigarh. The current DGP of Chandigarh is Surendra Singh Yadav, IPS of AGMUT Cadre. Chandigarh has the highest police density as compared to all other states and Union Territories across India.[2] As of 2015[update], there are 5295.6 policemen per 100 km² area in Chandigarh.
List of former IGP/ DGP of Chandigarh
| Sr. No
|
Name
|
Took office
|
Left office
|
| 1
|
B.N. Mehra, IPS
|
28 May 1979
|
31 March 1983
|
| 2
|
N.K. Singhal, IPS
|
9 May 1983
|
23 May 1985
|
| 3
|
R.K. Ohri, IPS
|
23 May 1985
|
16 January 1987
|
| 4
|
V.N, Singh, IPS
|
16 January 1987
|
6 March 1989
|
| 5
|
G.S. Sandhu, IPS
|
6 March 1989
|
30 July 1990
|
| 6
|
R.S. Gupta, IPS
|
30 July 1990
|
29 September 1993
|
| 7
|
Y.S. Dadwal, IPS
|
29 September 1993
|
26 December 1995
|
| 8
|
R.P. Singh, IPS
|
27 December 1995
|
5 April 1999
|
| 9
|
Dr Kiran Bedi, IPS
|
5 April 1999
|
18 May 1999
|
| 10
|
S.K. Singh, IPS
|
1 June 1999
|
30 June 2000
|
| 11
|
B.S. Bassi, IPS
|
1 July 2000
|
9 December 2002
|
| 12
|
Rajesh Kumar, IPS
|
9 December 2002
|
27 April 2005
|
| 13
|
Satish Chandra, IPS
|
27 April 2005
|
9 October 2006
|
| 14
|
S.K Jain, IPS
|
9 October 2006
|
14 September 2009
|
| 15
|
P.K Srivastava, IPS
|
5 December 2010
|
29 August 2012
|
| 16
|
R.P Upadhyaya, IPS
|
30 January 2013
|
8 March 2016
|
| 17
|
Tejendra Luthra, IPS
|
8 March 2016
|
26 June 2018
|
| 18
|
Sanjay Beniwal, IPS
|
27 June 2018
|
21 August 2021
|
| 19
|
Praveer Ranjan, IPS
|
21 August 2021
|
12 March 2024
|
| 20
|
Surendra Singh Yadav, IPS[3]
|
16 March 2024
|
Incumbent
|
Organizational structure
Chandigarh Police comes under the administrative control of the Department of Home, Chandigarh administration. The department is headed by the Home Secretary of Chandigarh. The Head of Police Force is the Director General of Police. There are 5 major SP/SSP ranked posts in Chandigarh Police which are headed by various IPS officers. They report to the DIG, Chandigarh, who in turns report to the IG, Chandigarh. The Police force is manned by IPS officers of the AGMUT cadre, however, the posts of SSP/UT and SSP/Traffic and Security are usually filled in by officers of Punjab and Haryana Cadre who are in deputation to the AGMUT Cadre.[4][5]
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