Prashanta Kumar Agarwal appointed new Haryana DGP

Haryana gets a new DGP as the state government has appointed Prashanta Kumar Agrawal, an IPS officer of the 1988 batch. He assumed charge as the DGP, Haryana on Monday. It is pertinent to mention that Union Public Service had finalised a panel of three IPS officials:PK Agarwal, Dr RC Mishra, and Mohmmad Akil. It was left to the Haryana government to decide one of these officials as the DGP. PK Agrawal, an IPS officer from Bihar, served the people in different districts. He also served as DGP Crime and Director General, State Vigilance Bureau.

A recipient of the Police Medal for Meritorious Services in 2004 and President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Services in 2015, Agrawal also attended various seminars, conferences and training courses at the Bureau of Police Research and Development, New Delhi, NICFS, Intelligence Bureau, CBI, NCB, XLRI, Jamshedpur including NCTP at NPA along with exposure of law enforcement agencies in the USA.

The Guard of Honour was given by police personnel to the new DGP at the Police Headquarters. Senior police officers congratulated him after he assumed charge of the office from incumbent DGP, Manoj Yadava. Agarwal said that effective monitoring of crime, its prevention and detection, ensuring the safety of women, children and weaker sections, eradication of drug menace would be among his top priorities.

He said, “I would also focus on improving the police-public relationship.” Agarwal said that cybercrime has been a new challenge for the police.

“There has been a phenomenal increase in the use of smartphones and online banking over a while. To achieve their ulterior motive, such fraudsters are adopting new technologies to commit crimes. We will adopt and develop specialisation to effectively tackle such crime. Besides this, the investigation standard would be further increased to make crackdown on such criminals in the days to come,” he added.