Ahead of the lok Sabha elections, the Punjab Government on Wednesday transferred 12 IPS officers and changed the SSPs of five districts.
The IPS officers who have been transferred include Vibhu Raj who has been transferred and posted as IGP/Vigilance Bureau Punjab Chandigarh, Balbir Kumar Bawa as IGP/Election Cell, Chandigarh, G Nageswara Rao as IGP/ Crime Chandigarh, RPS Brar as IGP/Traffic Punjab Chandigarh, lakshmee Kant Yadav as IGP/ Trg-cum-Additional Director MRS. PPA, Phillaur.
Other IPS officers transferred include Gurpreet Kaur Deo as IGP/NRI & Women Wing SAS Nagar, Khubi Ram as IGP/ Security-2 Chandigarh and A.K. Mittal as DIG/Border Range Amritsar. The district police chiefs who have been transferred are Harjinder Singh as SSP Batala, Harcharan Singh Bhullar as SSP Khanna, Gurpreet Singh Toor as SSP Rupnagar, Sushil Kumar as SSP Hoshiarpur and Gursharan Singh Sandhu as SSP SAS Nagar.