BHOPAL: Sudhir Kumar Saxena, a 1992-batch IPS officer, assumed office as Director General of Police (DGP) at the Madhya Pradesh police headquarters here on Friday.
Starting out as CSP Jabalpur in 1989, he held postings in various districts as SP and DIG in CID before being posted as secretary at MP Bhawan in New Delhi from 2009 to 2011. He returned to MP as IG-intelligence and served as OSD to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from 2012 to 2014. He moved back to Delhi as Joint director MHA in 2016 and was then posted as DG CISF in 2018. He was promoted and continued as special DG CISF before being appointed secretary (security), Cabinet Secretariat, in August last year.