Dineshwar Sharma

Dineshwar Sharma, a Bihar-born, Kerala-cadre Indian Police Service officer of the 1979 batch, is the present chief of the Intelligence Bureau.^[1] Sharma, who succeeds Syed Asif Ibrahim, has a wide range of experience — from handling separatism and insurgencies to domestic and regional politics. He has served in a wide variety of command & staff positions in various Police, Paramilitary & Intelligence agencies - including as Subdivisional Police Officer (SDPO) in Alappuzha district of Kerala, ASP (Deputy Commandant) of a Malabar Special Police Battalion, Commandant of the II Armed Police Battalion, Superintendent of Police of two Districts in Kerala, SSP in the Kerala CID, Instructor at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in the rank of SSP, DIG of the Border Security Force, IG of CRPF in charge of Jammu & Kashmir, and Joint Director & Additional Director in the Intelligence Bureau. He has served in Nagaland, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan in various capacities in BSF, CRPF and IB. He has also worked with National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval during his earlier stint as IB chief. Doval also belonged to Kerala cadre.

He did his primary education from Pali village in Bihar and later went to Gaya for his graduation. Sharma first qualified for Indian Forest Service and later for IPS.^[2]

Director of Intelligence Bureau (India) is the highest-ranked post in the Indian Police Service (IPS).^[3]

References

1. ↑ "Dineshwar Sharma is new IB chief | The Indian Express". indianexpress.com. Retrieved 14 February 2015. 
2. ↑ "Dineshwar Sharma new IB chief - The Hindu". thehindu.com. Retrieved 14 February 2015. 
3. ↑ "Indian Police Service (Uniform) Rules, 1954". Government of India, DOPT. Retrieved 13 June 2014.