The recently-appointed Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey has now been replaced by the Vivek Phansalkar. Known as a softspoken officer in police circles, Phansalkar is expected to have a long tenure as he is due to retire only in March 2025.
He is all set to take charge today, June 30, as the current city police chief. Also, it happens to be the retiring day of the current CP Sanjay Pandey.
It is pertinent to note that this development by the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government amid the ongoing political turmoil in the state.
The state home department issued an order in the evening of Wednesday, June 29, declaring the name of Phansalkar, a 1989-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer.
By the same order, the government has given additional charge of Phansalkar’s current position - managing director of the Maharashtra Police Housing and Welfare Corporation - to Archan Tyagi, the joint managing director of the corporation.
Apart from Phansalkar, the other two potential names were Sandeep Bishnoi, a 1989-batch IPS officer who is presently the director general of Legal and Technical, and Jaijeet Singh, who is due for promotion to the post of director general and is currently posted as the Thane commissioner of police. Singh, a 1990-batch IPS officer, has already worked as chief of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and as additional director general of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
Here’s All You Need To Know About Him:
A Look At Phansalkar’s Timeline:
1991-93: Worked as additional superintendent of police in Akola
1993-95: Was ADC to Governor Dr PC Alexander
1995-98: Superintendent of Police in Wardha and Parbhani
1998-2000: Posted as Deputy Commissioner of Police of Nashik
2000-03: Superintendent of police, CID (crime), Nagpur
2003-07: Director of vigilance for Cotton Corporation of India
2007-10: Additional Commissioner of Police for Pune and Thane
2010-14: Joint Commissioner of Police (traffic), Mumbai
2014-15: Joint Commissioner of Police (admin)
2015 -16: Additional Director General of Police, Anti-Terrorism Squad, Mumbai
2016-18: Additional Director General of Police, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Mumbai
2018-22: Thane Police Commissioner