KK Rao, an officer of 1996 batch of the Indian Police Service (IPS), has been appointed as the new Commissioner of Police Gurugram. Rao was posted as Inspector General of Police (IGP), Indian Reserve Battalion at Bhondsi. Rao is expected to take over the reins of Gurugram Police on Wednesday.
Rao is the 7th police chief of Gurugram Police after Commissionerate System of policing was introduced in the millennium city by then Chief Minister BS Hooda in June 2007.
Haryana Government on Tuesday issued transfers and posting orders of eight senior IPS officers, including the incumbent Commissioner of Police Gurugram, an official said.
The State Government posted 1996-batch IPS officer KK Rao (48), as Commissioner of police Gurugram on Tuesday replacing Sandeep Khirwar who has been transferred as the IGP of prestigious Rohtak Range.
According to the service record of the newly appointed police chief, he had served as Superintendent of police (SP) in 14 districts in Haryana and is a Post Graduate in Psychology from Kurukshetra University.
The new police chief of Gurugram, said , “My area of focus will be to improve the basic policing, work on crime mapping, reduction of crime rate and ensuring better traffic management”.
“We will ensure better security for the women. Our top priority will be to curb crime against women. Gurugram is developing as an industrial hub so traffic is big issue here and we will implement a better traffic system after studying the bottlenecks” Rao, said.
Earlier Rao was also in-charge of the Special Task force (STF), which escorted Dera head Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh in the CBI special court complex in Panchkula. At that time he had exposed how Dera chief used code signals to incite violence in Panchkula on August 25.
Meanwhile, a 1995-batch IPS officer, Khirwar joined as Commissioner of Police Gurugram, on August 17, 2016.
During his tenure, the Gurugram police faced serious allegations over the wrong investigation in the sensational murder of a seven year old student in a premier school here. The case was later transferred to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
However, credit goes to Khirwar as he got 1,000 new recruits to bolster the strength of the police force and 11 new police stations including the state's first cyber crime police station.