Chandigarh, January 28, 2020: Additional Director General of Police Varinder Kumar has been appointed head of intelligence wing of Punjab Police. He replaces VK Bhawra who will take over as DGP Punjab Home Guards and Director, Civil Defence.
As head of the intelligence wing reports to the state DGP, issues had crept up in this regard as both the DGP Police Punjab Dinkar Gupta and Bhawra were of the same 1987 batch of IPS officers and hence the same seniority.
Now, with the appointment of an ADGP as head of intelligence wing, things will smoothen out as a proper hierarchy of command will be established and Varinder will be junior to Gupta and thus will have no issues in reporting to his boss