Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjay Arora yesterday took cost because the commissioner of Delhi police. 

The 57-year-old officer was appointed as Delhi Police commissioner Sunday by the Union authorities. He succeeds 1984-batch IPS officer Rakesh Asthana. Photo courtesy: PIB

Arora was accorded the ceremonial guard of honour by the police pressure upon his arrival on the Delhi Police Headquarters on the Jai Singh Marg right here.

In his first tweet after assuming workplace because the Delhi Police chief, Arora stated the pressure will set new policing benchmarks.

“Today, I took cost as CP, Delhi. The wealthy legacy of @DelhiPolice is marked with highest citizen companies & sacrifices for making certain the National Capital’s security and safety. I’m assured that collectively, we are going to carry ahead this spirit and likewise set new benchmarks in policing,” he stated from the official Twitter deal with of the Delhi Police chief, the @CPDelhi.

The 57-year-old officer was appointed as Delhi Police commissioner Sunday by the Union authorities. He succeeds 1984-batch IPS officer Rakesh Asthana.

Arora’s appointment because the Delhi Police chief got here after the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) permitted his inter-cadre deputation from the Tamil Nadu cadre to the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre.

The Delhi Police features underneath the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and its officers belong to the AGMUT cadre. Arora has served because the Superintendent of Police of the Tamil Nadu Police Special Task Force, which was set as much as seek out forest brigand Veerappan, and he was awarded the chief minister’s gallantry medal for bravery throughout this stint.

He was appointed the director common of paramilitary pressure Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in August final yr. He additionally had stints with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Border Security Force (BSF).

Officials stated Arora had performed an essential position in forming the Special Security Group to offer safety to the chief minister of Tamil Nadu in the course of the heyday of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which led a separatist conflict for a Tamil homeland for 3 many years in Sri Lanka.

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