Bengaluru, Jan 31: Senior IPS officer Praveen Sood is the new Head of Police Force in Karnataka as the current DG and IG Neelamani Raju today retired.
Praveen Sood, the DIG of CID’s Economic Offences Wing, introduced several reforms that sped up investigation processes. He introduced the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System all over the state by networking all police stations in the country and ensuring data entry and retrieval of all information in police stations and higher police officers online.
Born in 1964, Sood graduated from IIT Delhi and joined the Indian Police Service in 1986. He kicked off his career as the Assistant Superintendent of Police in Mysuru in 1989. He has served as the SP of Ballari and Raichur before being posted as the Deputy Police Commissioner (Law and Order) of Bengaluru.
In 1999, he served as the police officer on foreign deputation as the police advisor to the Government of Mauritius for 3 years. He was posted as Police Commissioner of Mysuru City between 2004 and 2007.
He took over as the Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) in Bengaluru in 2008 and continued in the post till 2011. He has won the Chief Minister’s Gold Medal for excellence in service in 1996, the Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2002 and the President’s Police Medal in 2011.
During 2013-14 he took over as Managing Director of Karnataka State Police Housing Corporation. He later worked as the Principal Secretary to the Home Department as the Additional Director General of Police (Karnataka State Reserve Police) and the ADGP of Administration.
In 2017, he was appointed the Bengaluru Police Commissioner. He was also instrumental in launching “Suraksha” App and “Pink Hoyasalas” managed by all-women police officers.
As the DIG of the CID, Economic offences and Special Units, he is credited for opening the Centre for Cyber-crime Investigation, Training and Research for training police officers, prosecutors and the judiciary in handling cyber crime cases.
Mangaluru, Aug 3: Once again a Hindu youth was attacked by a local Bajrang Dal leader and his associates, who normally target Muslims and Christians in the region.
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No Surprise, its BD culture
Mirchi time.. Naren n frends please comment :D
SAAYALI BIDI,NAAI MATTU BEKKU HEEEEEEEEEE
Look at the safety of India, they all Mother f**kers will release from the police custody very soon and repeat the same thing again, God should save India from these goons of BJP/RSS /VHP/BD
I don't understand like Goa why can't our Sidhuji's government ban this nonsense, ruthless, barbaric, terrorist and rapist outfit....
all bajrangdal followers are robbers only if they have work and qualification they would be working in good Environment without disturbing the nation peace.
this s personal rivalry, but accused must be punished.
why mentioning groups name? this s nai pucha fight :)
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