Kolkata: Vineet Goyal, 1994 Batch IPS officer, will be the new Kolkata Police Commissioner, assuming the cost of the partner’s Soumen, which will retire on Friday.
IIT Alumni Kharagpur, Goyal leads a special task force as an additional director general.
Gyanwant Singh, a 1993 batch officer, will now take Cid’s double accusations, which he studinated as an additional director general, and STF.
Apart from Goyal, Praveen Kumar Tripathi, who is now digging (Malda range), will return to Kolkata police as additional CP.
Police Kolkata DCP (STF) Aparajita Rai will head to Kalimpong as police supervisor and SP Kalimpong Harikrishna Pai will be DCP (STF).
Goyal, who has served in several key positions both in Kolkata police and the National Police, has joined Bengal cadres in August 1995.
He has worked in Bengal, Kolkata police, CID and recently, STF.
In fact, he was in the middle of the action when the STF team opened fire on two Punjab gangsters in the new city complex earlier this year.
Goyal is also a director, security.
In Kolkata police, he has worked as a DCP, including DCP (traffic), increasing gradually to the additional police commissioner.
He also studied public policy from the Singapore Based Institute.
Goyal, however, doesn’t talk about his new promise soon.
According to officers who have worked with gouces, he is believed to always be looking to introduce technology in the police.
During his work in Kolkata police and then, in the new STF formed, Bengal saw the unit actively adopted a modern investigation tool.
In CID, too, he plays the same role.
A senior officer said, “He joined the Kolkata police at that time adopted more technology even for conventional police.” Alok Rajoria, now Malda police supervisor, will be a new excavation (Malda range), replacing Tripathi.
Sukesh Singh, who served as Dig (state armed police) will be a new excavation (traffic).
Y Raghuvanshi, the SP Jalpaiiguri, will be a new SP from Alipurduar, not Bolanath Pandey.
Pandey will be a new SP from Jalpaiguri.