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Govt begins search for new top cop, considers six senior IPS officers
The New Indian Express Kottayam
|March 17, 2025
Move comes as incumbent police chief Shaik Darvesh Saheb is set to retire on June 30
THE government has set in motion the process of finding a replacement for incumbent state police chief Shaik Darvesh Saheb, who is set to retire on June 30. As the first step, it has sent a communique to six IPS officers, who have completed 30 years of service, seeking their willingness and resume to be considered for inclusion in the list of probables that will be forwarded to the UPSC.
The officers who have been approached are DGPs Nitin Agrawal, Ravada A Chandrasekhar, and Yogesh Gupta, and ADGPs Manoj Abraham, S Suresh, and M R Ajith Kumar.
This story is from the March 17, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kottayam.
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