On New Year eve, the state government promoted 23 IPS officers of UP cadre on Thursday.
An official communiqué released in Lucknow on Thursday said that six DIGs were promoted to the rank of IG, eight SSPs to the rank of DIG and nine officers were handed out selection grades.
Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said that the officers promoted from DIG to IG were Rajesh Modak, Vinay Kumar Yadav, Hira Lal, Shiv Shanker Singh, Dr Rakesh Singh and Rajesh Kumar Pandey.
The SSPs promoted as DIG were Amit Pathak, Vinod Kumar Singh, Jogendra Kumar, Ravi Shanker Chavi, Pratibha Ambedkar, Nitin Tiwari, Ashok Kumar-III and Anil Kumar Singh.
The officers given selection grade were Sureshwar, Anand Kulkarni, Amit Verma, Bharati Singh, Vipin Kumar Mishra, Madhav Prasad Verma, Sabha Raj, Swami Prasad, Saumitra Yadav and Ramesh..