Devendra Kumar Pathak, IPS, SDG, BSF, has assumed the additional charge of the post of director general, Border Security Force. BSF is the largest border guarding force of the world having the strength of 2.5 lakh brave and dedicated border men protecting the international border of 6,385 kms.
Born on March 1, 1956, Pathak belongs to the 1979 batch of the Indian Police Service and was allotted the Assam-Meghalaya cadre. In his early days in IPS, he held charge of four districts as SSP in Assam and Meghalaya and also held charge of one range for continuous four years.
He worked as CVO in Oil India ltd, Delhi. He was assigned to handle strife-torn and volatile law and order situation in Assam as IG (law & order) and ADG (law & order) for a record period of five years continuously. He was in CRPF in 2008 on central deputation, and got posted to J&K. He was also entrusted to raise elite anti-naxal force, “Cobra” of CRPF. He was entrusted to revamp training of the CRPF, apart from giving momentum to IT, provisioning, administration etc as ADG (HQ & Trg), in order to achieve optimum professional acumen of the force. The new DG, BSF, was given a ceremonial “guard of honour” before he took charge at the BSF headquarters in Delhi.