Sood, a 1986-batch IPS officer, was appointed Karnataka DGP in January 2020, superseding 1985-batch IPS officer Ashit Mohan Prasad.

In an order, Nila Mohanan, director, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), mentioned: “Approval of the Competent Authority, is hereby conveyed to the appointment of Praveen Sood, IPS-86 batch, as Director, CBI for a period of two years from the date of assumption of charge of the office vice Subhodh Kumar Jaiswal, consequent upon completion of his tenure.”

Sood graduated from IIT Delhi, and after becoming a member of the police, began his profession as assistant superintendent of police (Mysore) in 1989. He later served because the SP of Bellary and Raichur earlier than getting transferred to Bengaluru metropolis as deputy commissioner of police (regulation and order). In 1999, he went for a overseas deputation as a police advisor to the Government of Mauritius for 3 years the place he labored carefully with European and American police.

Sood has a weblog web page and he talked about that in 2003, he took a sabbatical for pursuing Post Graduation in Public Policy and Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Maxwell School of Governance, Syracuse University, New York.

“He was posted as Commissioner of Police of Mysore city from 2004 to 2007. He was also instrumental in the arrest of Pakistan-origin terrorists during his stint in Mysore. He has been decorated with Chief Minister’s Gold Medal for excellence in service in 1996, Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2002 and President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 2011. Besides he is recipient of Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in the year 2006 for his contribution towards road safety & traffic management and national E-Governance Gold Award for ‘Most innovative use of technology for Traffic Management’ in the year 2011,” based on Sood’s weblog.

He additionally labored as principal secretary, Home division; further director normal of police, Karnataka State Reserve Police and extra director normal of police, Administration.

As commissioner of police, Bengaluru metropolis, he launched ‘Namma 100’ – an ‘Emergency Response System’ for residents in misery. It presents 100 strains managed by multilingual “Communication Officers” 24X7, and the assist of 276 Emergency Response Vehicles (Hoysala), unfold throughout Bengaluru City. He was additionally instrumental in launching the ‘Suraksha’ App and ‘Pink Hoyasala’ managed by ladies cops, particularly for girls and kids in misery.

On Saturday, the choice committee headed by PM Modi had shortlisted three names for the put up of CBI director, however the train was not easy because the Opposition member on the panel — Congress chief in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury — conveyed his objection over the process and demanded that the method be carried out afresh.

The shortlisted names which had been despatched to the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet: Praveen Sood, DGP (Karnataka); Sudhir Kumar Saxena, DGP, Madhya Pradesh; and Taj Hassan, director normal, Fire Service, Civil Defence and Home Guards.

According to sources, the DoPT had earlier despatched an inventory of practically 115 names for the CBI chief’s put up, together with some officers who weren’t empanelled. Chowdhury is learnt to have pointed this out, and in addition argued that he had not acquired the service data, private particulars and integrity paperwork of the officers on the listing.