IPS officer Laxmi Singh appointed UP’s first girl Police Commissioner at Noida

By PTI

NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh authorities has appointed IPS officer Laxmi Singh as the brand new Noida Police chief, making her the primary girl officer to move a Police Commissionerate within the state.

The 2000-batch officer, who changed Alok Singh in Gautam Buddh Nagar, is predicted to take cost on Wednesday.

The UP authorities late Monday night time issued a switch and posting listing of 16 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers within the state, together with for the brand new Commissionerates of Varanasi, Agra and Prayagraj.

The state at current has 7 police commissionerates, a coverage construction created first in 2020.

Alok Singh, a 1995-batch IPS officer, has been posted as a further director common of police (ADGP) on the DGP workplace in state capital Lucknow.

Laxmi, 48, has been serving as an Inspector General of Police, Lucknow vary.

She holds the excellence of being the primary girl IPS topper (thirty third rank general) within the UPSC-held exams and was adjudged one of the best probationer on the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad, as per official data.

She has additionally been awarded the PM’s silver bation and the house minister’s pistol throughout her coaching.

Holding a B.Tech diploma in Mechanical Engineering, she had her first posting as senior superintendent of police in 2004.

In 2013, she was promoted as a deputy IG and in 2018 she was promoted to the rank of IG.

Laxmi has beforehand served because the IG/DIG of the Special Task Force (STF) in Gautam Buddh Nagar from January 1, 2018 to March 5, 2018.

Thereafter, she was made IG of the police coaching faculty in Meerut from March 2018 to May 26 in 2020 earlier than being moved as IG Range Lucknow.

A senior official who has labored together with her instructed PTI that she maintains a private diary of prison incidents that happen in her jurisdiction.

The state authorities, final week, introduced three new police commissionerates in three districts of Ghaziabad, Agra and Prayagraj.

This was along with 4 present ones in Lucknow, Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida), Varanasi and Kanpur.

The commissionerates in Lucknow and Gautam Buddh Nagar had been established in January 2020 whereas they had been arrange in Varanasi and Kanpur in March 2021.

The new Noida Police chief is married to BJP MLA from Sarojini Nagar seat in Lucknow and former ED officer Rajeshwar Singh.

Among different awards, Laxmi has acquired the Police Medal in 2016, UP DGP’s silver and gold medals in 2020 and 2021.

She was final 12 months honoured with the UP chief minister’s excellence in service medal.

NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh authorities has appointed IPS officer Laxmi Singh as the brand new Noida Police chief, making her the primary girl officer to move a Police Commissionerate within the state.

The 2000-batch officer, who changed Alok Singh in Gautam Buddh Nagar, is predicted to take cost on Wednesday.

The UP authorities late Monday night time issued a switch and posting listing of 16 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers within the state, together with for the brand new Commissionerates of Varanasi, Agra and Prayagraj.

The state at current has 7 police commissionerates, a coverage construction created first in 2020.

Alok Singh, a 1995-batch IPS officer, has been posted as a further director common of police (ADGP) on the DGP workplace in state capital Lucknow.

Laxmi, 48, has been serving as an Inspector General of Police, Lucknow vary.

She holds the excellence of being the primary girl IPS topper (thirty third rank general) within the UPSC-held exams and was adjudged one of the best probationer on the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad, as per official data.

She has additionally been awarded the PM’s silver bation and the house minister’s pistol throughout her coaching.

Holding a B.Tech diploma in Mechanical Engineering, she had her first posting as senior superintendent of police in 2004.

In 2013, she was promoted as a deputy IG and in 2018 she was promoted to the rank of IG.

Laxmi has beforehand served because the IG/DIG of the Special Task Force (STF) in Gautam Buddh Nagar from January 1, 2018 to March 5, 2018.

Thereafter, she was made IG of the police coaching faculty in Meerut from March 2018 to May 26 in 2020 earlier than being moved as IG Range Lucknow.

A senior official who has labored together with her instructed PTI that she maintains a private diary of prison incidents that happen in her jurisdiction.

The state authorities, final week, introduced three new police commissionerates in three districts of Ghaziabad, Agra and Prayagraj.

This was along with 4 present ones in Lucknow, Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida), Varanasi and Kanpur.

The commissionerates in Lucknow and Gautam Buddh Nagar had been established in January 2020 whereas they had been arrange in Varanasi and Kanpur in March 2021.

The new Noida Police chief is married to BJP MLA from Sarojini Nagar seat in Lucknow and former ED officer Rajeshwar Singh.

Among different awards, Laxmi has acquired the Police Medal in 2016, UP DGP’s silver and gold medals in 2020 and 2021.

She was final 12 months honoured with the UP chief minister’s excellence in service medal.