Why in news:

• Gurpreet Kaur Deo and Shashi Prabha Dwivedi have become the first women IPS officers in the state of Punjab to attain the rank of Director General of Police (DGP).

Key Points:

• They are among seven Additional DGP rank officers promoted as DGP, taking the total number of people holding the top police rank in state to 13. All the promotees are 1993-batch IPS officers.
• Senior-most among the promotees, Gurpreet Kaur Deo is also the first woman IPS officer in Punjab Police. She was appointed as IPS officer 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).
• Shashi Prabha 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.
• Among others Dwivedi had earlier served as ADGP (Human Resource Development) with additional charge of Women and Child Affairs and ADGP (Lokpal) with additional charge of Nodal Officer, Punjab Police Election Cell.
• 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).