Mr. Partap takes charge as DGP Assam;promise to improve Police

Guwahati: Assam Special DGP (Law and Order) Gyanendra Pratap Singh on Tuesday took charge as the state’s DGP and promised to build a “citizen-oriented” police force and improve crime investigations.

Born on November 8, 1967, Singh, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1991 batch of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, replaced outgoing DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta who retired on Tuesday.
Assuring that inappropriate behavior by police officers and police personnel will not be tolerated, Singh warned that punitive action would be initiated against erring police personnel in this regard.
Addressing mediapersons after taking charge as the state’s top police officer, Singh said, “I am very clear that ill-treatment will not be tolerated in the Assam Police at all.” I am not thinking of taking punitive action initially… but if the behavior does not improve, I will not hesitate to take punitive action against those police officers who are involved in misbehavior with the public.
He further promised the people of the state that he would personally take cognizance of any complaint against policemen misbehaving with any citizen besides taking action against crimes and criminals during his tenure.

“The aim is to create a citizen-based police force in the state. So please have faith in the Assam Police. Mistakes will be made but they will be rectified. This is my commitment to the people,” he said.
About the Assam Police’s aggressive style of working and zero tolerance against criminals in the last one-and-a-half years, Singh said, “I believe that all measures provided to the Assam Police by law to fight crime and criminals have been taken.” will be used for That people stay safe. A wide range of action can be taken in this regard. The most important pillar of crime and action against criminals is a good investigation, good prosecution and good forensics – which will be the foundation of the Assam Police in the next few years.
However, he said there was room for improvement in police investigation of crimes, particularly forensic support for investigations, which had undergone various rounds of discussions with the government.
“The state government has already roped in a forensic expert who is preparing a blueprint and architecture for the development of forensics in Assam. So with the government’s support and improved forensic infrastructure, a better charge sheet will be presented to the court. can be done,” Singh said, adding that the state police force would try to improve its investigations.

The new DGP further stressed that he would simultaneously redress the genuine grievances and grievances of junior level officers and personnel in the state police force.
“I will never leave my junior officers without support. I stand fully with the 70,000 police officers and police personnel who have supported me in my 32 years of service in the police force. I want to thank my police officers as the people of the state. To provide an environment to serve effectively,” he said.
It may be recalled that Singh had joined the elite Special Protection Group in New Delhi in 2002. During this period he acquired special skills in VVIP protection. In recognition of his abilities, he was given the responsibility of heading the close protection detail of two successive Prime Ministers of India, both inside and outside the country.
On his return from Delhi assignment, Singh was posted as Deputy Inspector General and later, Inspector General of Police in Guwahati, where he was instrumental in dismantling the networks of banned militant groups such as ULFA and NDFB. had been. It was struggling with the scourge of IED blasts.

This was achieved largely due to better intelligence networks and community participation with the help of police authority.
In 2012, Singh was posted as IGP, BTAD in Kokrajhar following communal clashes in the Bodo belt.

From November 2013 to December 2019, he was posted in New Delhi as Inspector General with the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the special counter-terrorism investigative agency of the Government of India.
During this period, he worked extensively in the Northeast, Kashmir, Punjab, and the interior. He oversaw the investigation of ISIS-related terrorist offenses in India as well as their international conspiracies.
He oversaw the Pulwama, Uri and Pathankot blast cases in Jammu and Kashmir along with the Samjhauta, Malegaon, Ajmer Sharif and Makkah Masjid blast cases.
He led the NIA’s efforts in tracing the involvement of separatist leaders in terror funding in Jammu and Kashmir.

However, he was brought back to Assam by the NIA in December 2019 at a time when the CAA agitation was at its peak in Assam.

By their definition, the provocation, the violent part, was stopped in no time.
He was also the state nodal officer for inter-state movement of people in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak and the consequent lockdown imposed in the country. At that time, lakhs of people from the state who were stranded in different parts of India and abroad were safely brought back to Assam.
From August 2020 to January 2023, Singh held the additional charge of Director, Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Government of Assam and led efforts against corruption among public servants. This period also saw the largest ever recorded action against corrupt civil servants in Assam.

Singh also led the Assam government’s multi-agency anti-rhino poaching task force and was instrumental in ensuring that rhino poaching would end by 2022 for the first time in 45 years.