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IPS Officer Sujoy Lal Thaosen Appointed As 37th CRPF Director General

Meanwhile, senior IPS officer Anish Dayal also took charge as the new Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. 

New Delhi: Senior Indian Police Services officer Sujoy Lal Thaosen took charge as the 37th Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the largest Central armed police force mandated to provide internal security in the country, reported news agency ANI. A 1988-batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS office, Thaosen took the salute of the impeccable Guard of Honour and took over as Director General of CRPF in a formal ceremony organised earlier in the day, reported the news agency. 

Earlier, he was holding charge of Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) as well as the additional charge of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) chief. 

An order was issued last Saturday by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) appointing Thaosen at the post of CRPF Director General which had fallen vacant with the superannuation of 1986-batch IPS officer Kuldiep Singh on September 30. 

Thaosen, who hails from Haflong in Dima Hasao district of Assam, had taken charge of SSB chief on June 1. He was also given additional charge of ITBP DG after the post got vacant when 1988-batch Tamil Nadu cadre IPS officer Sanjay Arora assumed the charge of Delhi Police Commissioner.

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Thaosen will now head the CRPF until his superannuation on November 30, 2023, or till further orders, whichever is earlier. With its strength of 3.5 lakh personnel, the CRPF is primarily tasked to provide internal security across the country, especially in Naxal-hit states and Jammu and Kashmir.

Meanwhile, senior IPS officer Anish Dayal also took charge as the new Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. 

Singh, a 1988-batch officer of Manipur cadre, was first handed over the ceremonial baton by his batchmate S L Thaosen who has been holding the additional charge of the about 90,000-personnel-strong mountain-warfare trained force since August after Sanjay Arora was appointed Delhi Police Commissioner.

Before taking charge at the ITBP headquarters at Lodhi Road, Singh was accorded a guard of honour following which senior officers gave him a presentation on the operations and deployment of the force.

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The officer belongs to the Manipur cadre and has become the 32nd DG of the ITBP. He has been serving as a special director in the Intelligence Bureau where he handled several sensitive assignments.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by the prime minister had on October 1 issued the order for the appointment of Singh who has service till December 2024.

(With inputs from ANI and PTI) 

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