Vineet Goyal ('90) to take charge as Kolkata Police commissioner
The Times of India (December 31, 2021)
Vineet Goyal to take charge as Kolkata Police commissioner today
KOLKATA: Vineet Goyal, a 1994 batch IPS officer, will become the new Kolkata Police commissioner, assuming charge from Soumen Mitra, who will retire on Friday. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, Goyal ('90) headed the Special Task Force as its additional director-general.
Gyanwant Singh, a 1993 batch officer, will now take the dual charges of CID, which he headed as the additional director-general, as well as that of the STF.
Apart from Goyal, Praveen Kumar Tripathi, who is now DIG (Malda range), will return to Kolkata Police as the additional CP. Kolkata Police's DCP (STF) Aparajita Rai will head for Kalimpong as its police superintendent and SP Kalimpong Harikrishna Pai will become the DCP (STF).
Goyal, who has served in several key positions both in Kolkata Police and state police, had joined the Bengal cadre in August 1995. He had worked across Bengal, Kolkata Police, CID and recently, STF. (Read More)