Special Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Taj Hassan was today made the new chief spokesperson of Delhi Police, a day after Alok Kumar Verma took charge as the chief of the over 80,000 strong force.
Hassan (51) today replaced DCP (Crime) Rajan Bhagat, who served Delhi Police as its spokesperson -- an additional charge -- since 2006, in pursuance of an order by Verma.
Hassan, an 1987-batch IPS officer, has earlier served Delhi Police as the chief of traffic department and joint commissioner of security unit among other important positions.
This is the first major change in the force after Verma took charge of its reins.
When Verma was the Director General of Tihar, the prison authorities had accused Delhi Police of "misusing" media through their spokesperson in connection with the murder of two inmates in a jail van brawl last year which led to a blame game between Delhi Police and prison authorities.
