2-woman IPS officers promoted as DGP in Punjab

Gurpreet Kaur Deo and Shashi Prabha Dwivedi became the first women IPS officers in Punjab to attain the position of Director General of Police (DGP). They are among seven Additional DGP rank officers who were promoted to DGP, making a total of 13 persons in the state who hold the top police position. The promoted IPS officers are all from the 1993 batch.
Deo, the senior-most promoted individual, is the first woman IPS officer in the Punjab Police. On September 5, 1993. She had earlier served as Additional DGP (Community Affairs Division and Women Affairs), ADGP-cum-chief of anti-drug Special Task Force, Chief Vigilance Officer, ADGP (Crime), Bureau of Investigation and ADGP (Administration).
Dwivedi, who was posted as Additional DGP (Railways) with additional charge of modernization, is also of 1993-batch but had joined as IPS officer on September 4, 1994. “I am elated to make it to the top rank and thankful to the government,” Dwivedi said.
Others who have been promoted to DGP rank include Varinder Kumar (Director, Vigilance Bureau); Rajendra Namdeo Dhoke (chief of Internal Security and Mining Enforcement Directorate), Ishwar Singh (ADGP, Human Resource Development with additional charge of nodal officer for Welfare and State Election); Jitendra Kumar Jain (ADGP, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited), and Satish Kumar Asthana (ADGP, Policy & Rules). Varinder Kumar has remained in the limelight after formation of the AAP government in the state as Vigilance Bureau has registered several cases in the recent past and booked several influential people.