Senior IPS officer Rina Mitra has been appointed as the new Additional Director General of the Border Security Force.
Mitra is a 1983 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre. She is the second woman Indian Police Service officer to be posted in the over 50 year-old paramilitary tasked to guard important Indian frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
An order in this regard was today issued by the Union Home Ministry. Mitra will retire in 2019.
The officer is at present serving in hercadre state as DG (Police Housing) and earlier served in the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau when it was created under the Environment and Forests Ministry. She is credited with cracking some of the difficult cases there.
She has also served in CBI for over six years, Railway Board, BPRD and as the Director of the National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science (NICFS) during her earlier stints at the Centre.
Last year, the government had appointed Archana Ramasundaram as the first woman chief of another border guarding force, Sashastra Seema Bal.
BSF had its woman IPS officer in Satwant Atwal Trivedi of 1996-batch of Himachal Pradesh cadre. She was last year appointed as DIG and recently promoted as Inspector General.
