BENGALURU: In a major overhaul of the police department on New Year's Eve, the State Government has appointed Praveen Sood as the new city police commissioner with the current incumbent, N.S. Megharikh, set to take over as Anti-Corruption Bureau chief, while transferring as many as 47 IPS officers, shifting several key posts in the department.
Praveen Sood, who had earlier served in several key posts such as Mysuru city police commissioner, Bengaluru Additional Police Commissioner (Traffic), ADGP (Computer Wing) and lately as ADGP (Administration), Bengaluru assumes charge on Sunday.
A graduate from IIT Delhi, Sood joined the IPS in 1986 and started his career as Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mysore in 1989. He has won the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 2011.
The outgoing city police commissioner, Megharikh, will be taking over as the head of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's brain child - ACB, replacing K.V. Gangandeep, who has been transferred as ADGP - Crimes and Technical Services.
The other senior IPS officers to be transferred include Ashit Mohan Prasad, who was serving as ADGP and Commissioner for Traffic and Road Safety.
He has been transferred to the post of Communication, Logistics & Modernisation replacing Rajvir Pratap Sharma, who is now transferred as Managing Director of Karnataka Handicrafts Development Corporation.
The new Commissioner will have a new set of IPS officers across the city division to be headed by newly transferred officers including Kamal Pant (ADGP, Administration), A.S.N. Murthy (Commissioner for Traffic and Road safety).
In addition, Malini Krishnamurthy will be the new Additional Commissioner of Police, West Division replacing K.S.R. Charan Reddy. Hemanth Nimbalkar will be the new Additional Commissioner of Police, East Division, Bengaluru.
