SRINAGAR: Senior IPS officer Mukesh Singh was on Friday appointed as the Director General of Police (DGP) of Ladakh, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said.
According to an order issued by the MHA, Singh, a 1996-batch Indian Police Service officer of the AGMUT cadre, has been posted as DGP, Ladakh with immediate effect on his repatriation from Central deputation. He will hold the post until further orders. The appointment was approved by the competent authority and formed part of a broader order announcing postings and transfers of other AGMUT cadre IPS officers.
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Mukesh Singh is an Indian Police Service officer of the AGMUT cadre. He holds a BTech degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and joined the IPS in 1996. During his career, he has served in several sensitive assignments, including as superintendent of police in Reasi, Pulwama, Poonch and Jammu during periods of heightened militancy.
He was a member of the core team involved in the establishment of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which later emerged as the country’s premier counter-terrorism investigation agency. At the NIA, he served as superintendent of police, deputy inspector general and inspector general. He is presently posted as additional director general of police, heading the police of Jammu Province.
Throughout his service, Singh has been closely associated with counter-terrorism operations, both in the field in Jammu and Kashmir and at the NIA, where he handled several high-profile cases.
He has co-authored the book Police Operations and has co-published three research papers — Investigation of Encounter Killings (2016), Police Operations (2015) and Conducting an Anti-Terrorist Operation (2014).