Chandigarh Police


The Chandigarh Police is the law enforcement agency for the Union Territory of Chandigarh in India. Chandigarh Police has its headquarters at sector 9 D, Chandigarh. The head of the state police is the Home Secretary of Chandigarh. The current Home Secretary of Chandigarh is Sh. Arun Kumar Gupta IAS, 1992 Haryana Cadre.Chandigarh has the highest police density as compared to all other states and Union Territories across India., there are 5295.6 policemen per 100 km² area in Chandigarh.
Sr. NoNameTenure
1B.N. Mehra, IPS28 May 1979 to 31 March 1983
2N.K. Singhal, IPS9 May 1983 to 23 May 1985
3R.K. Ohri, IPS23 May 1985 to 16 January 1987
4V.N, Singh, IPS16 January 1987 to 6 March 1989
5G.S. Sandhu, IPS6 March 1989 to 30 July 1990
6R.S. Gupta, IPS30 July 1990 to 29 September 1993
7Y.S. Dadwal, IPS29 September 1993 to 26 December 1995
8R.P. Singh, IPS27 December 1995 to 5 April 1999
9Dr Kiran Bedi, IPS5 April 1999 to 18 May 1999
10S.K. Singh, IPS1 June 1999 to 30 June 2000
11B.S. Bassi, IPS1 July 2000 to 9 December 2002
12Rajesh Kumar, IPS9 December 2002 to 27 April 2005
13Satish Chandra, IPS27 April 2005 to 9 October 2006
14S.K Jain, IPS9 October 2006 to 14 September 2009
15P.K Srivastava, IPS5 December 2010 to 29 August 2012
16R.P Upadhyaya, IPS30 January 2013 to 8 March 2016
17T.S. Luthra, IPS8 March 2016 to 26 June 2018
18Sanjay Beniwal, IPS27 June 2018 to till date

Organizational structure

Chandigarh Police comes under direct control of Department of Home Affairs, Chandigarh administration. The department is headed by the Home Secretary of Chandigarh.
NameCurrent Posting
Sanjay Beniwal, IPSDirector General of Police
O P Mishra, IPSDIG Chandigarh
Nilambari Jagadale, IPSSSP Chandigarh
Ravi Kumar Singh, IPSSP Operation
Eish Singhal, IPSSP Headquarters
Shashank Anand, IPSSSP Security & Traffic
Roshan Lal, CPSCommandant - IRB Chandigarh