Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Javeed Ahmed was on Friday shunted to a less important post by the Adityanath Government, which transferred 12 IPS officers in the first big reshuffle in the top police hierarchy.
1980-batch IPS officer Sulkan Singh, who was DG (Training), will replace Ahmed, a 1984-batch IPS officer, who has been shifted as the DG of Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), a senior Home department official said here.
Singh is likely to have a brief stint as the state police head as his superannuation is due in September.
ADG (law and Order) Daljit Singh Chowdhury and ADG Economic Offence Wing (EOW) and logistics Aditya Mishra have swapped places in the transfer which came a month after Yogi Adtiyanath assumed office.
The Chief Minister has not minced words in sending out a strong message that law and order was his government’s top priority and any laxity in this regard would not be tolerated.
During the recent Assembly polls, the BJP had petitioned the Election Commission to remove Ahmed, alleging that he was working at the behest of the then Samajwadi Party Government.
DG (Intelligence) Jawahar lal Tripathi has been made DG (Prosecution) and DG (Homeguards) Alok Prasad has been given additional charge of Training.
Surya Kumar has been relieved from post of DG (Prosecution) and will continue as DG police recruitment and promotion board.
ADG (Security) Bhavesh Kumar Singh has been made ADG (Intelligence), ADG Police Training School Sitapur Vijay Kumar has been made ADG (Security) while Alok Singh, who was on wait list has been made IG PAC (Eastern zone). IG Sanjay Singhal has been made IG PAC (Central zone).
IG Women Powerline Navneet Sikera has been relieved from the charge of PAC (Central zone) but will continue on other posts.
Earlier in the day, the state government transferred 7 IAS officers including some divisional commissioners.