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SP Vaid appointed as new Director General of Police for Jammu and Kashmir

| | Dec 29, 2016, at 03:27 am
Jammu, Dec 28 (IBNS): Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday appointed Dr SP Vaid as new Director General of Police (DGP) of the state.

He will succeed K Rajendra Kumar.

His three-year term is ending this month.

The decision to appoint Vaid as DGP was taken in a cabinet meeting in Jammu on Wednesday.

"The State cabinet has approved the appointment of Vaid as new DGP," Cabinet spokesman Naeem Akther said

Vaid is a 1986-batch IPS officer of J&K cadre who is presently working as Special DGP (Law and Order).

(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)

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