Alok Mittal


Alok Mittal is an IPS officer of 1993 batch, Haryana cadre. Currently posted as ADGP in Haryana. He has worked as Inspector General, National Investigation Agency, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. from April 2015 - June 2020. He served as Commissioner of Police, Gurgaon from February, 2013 to November, 2014.

Early career

Mittal started, for the first time in India, all Women PCR in Faridabad, Haryana in 2007 when he was posted as SSP there. His public centric initiatives to improve policing in Gurgaon received wide appreciation from all sections of society.
He also started the Cyber Safe Campaign in Gurgaon, along with Rakshit Tandon, a cyber security expert. It was conducted in two phases in July–August, 2013 and November, 2014 to educate and sensitise students, teachers and parents in schools and colleges about the various problems related to cyber security. The campaign covered more than 60 schools and around 60,000 students and 4,000 teachers/parents were educated and sensitised about the importance of cyber security.
A summer internship program with the Cyber Crime Cell of Gurgaon Police was also started as part of the Cyber Safe Campaign, the campaign saw engineering and management graduates from various colleges/universities spread in all parts of the country.
Mittal has been awarded with
  1. the Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2009.
  2. the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Services in 2016.

    Education

Mittal received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 1990, and master's degree in Police Management from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has also completed his LLB from MDU, Rohtak, Haryana and his Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Laws from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He did his schooling from Balrampur and Gonda in Uttar Pradesh.