New Delhi: The Central Government on Monday executed a significant reshuffle in top-level police administration, notifying three high-profile institutional appointments cleared by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. The strategic structural changes target premier national security, research, and training installations to enhance federal law enforcement coordination. The ACC, which comprises Prime Minister Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, finalised the mandates to fill critical executive vacancies in the National Capital and key state-level hubs.
Under the new directives, Alok Mittal, a seasoned 1993-batch Indian Police Service officer of the Haryana cadre, has been chosen to head the Bureau of Police Research and Development in New Delhi. Mittal will take charge as the Director General of the premier federal research organization, bringing extensive state vigilance, administrative, and policing expertise to the role. According to official guidelines, his central deputation assignment will run through to his superannuation in June 2029, steering structural reforms and modernization protocols for police forces nationwide.
Concurrently, the central panel appointed Amit Garg as the new Director of the National Crime Records Bureau. Garg, a senior IPS officer belonging to the Andhra Pradesh cadre, transitions to the critical data-tracking repository from his current assignment in Telangana, where he was serving as the head of the country’s apex police training facility. In a corresponding lateral movement to fill the vacancy created by Garg’s transfer, the ACC named Sujeet Pandey, a 1994-batch IPS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, as the new head of the prestigious Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad.
