Police reforms: UP government introduces police commissionerate system

Posts ADG rank officials as first police commissioners of Lucknow, Noida

In a significant police reforms measure, the Yogi Adityanath government on Monday introduced the police commissionerate system in Uttar Pradesh by posting two additional director general (ADG) of police rank officials as the first police commissioners of Lucknow and Noida.

The two towns have been selected on a pilot basis, since they are respectively the political and financial capital of UP. Other important cities are also likely to be taken up in due course depending upon its success in Lucknow and Noida.

Meanwhile, the state government has posted Sujit Pandey and Alok Kumar as the maiden police commissioners of Lucknow and Noida,