Delhi Police Relieves 13 IPS Officers for Postings to Union Territory Cadres

Thirteen IPS officers of the Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli (AGMUT) cadre have been relieved from Delhi Police and shifted to postings outside the capital, according to an order issued this week by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The AGMUT cadre requires officers to rotate periodically between Delhi and the Union Territories it covers, a system meant to give officers administrative exposure beyond the capital while ensuring smaller UTs are staffed with experienced police leadership. This round of transfers sends officers as far as Ladakh, Puducherry, Arunachal Pradesh and Lakshadweep, reflecting the geographic spread a single cadre is required to service, and prevents any officer from holding long, uninterrupted tenures in one jurisdiction — a structural feature that distinguishes the AGMUT cadre from ordinary state cadres, where postings tend to stay within a single state's borders.

The officers being relieved were until now posted with Delhi Police, the country's largest metropolitan force, where AGMUT-cadre IPS officers typically hold charge of districts, ranges or specialised units before rotating out under the cadre's Union Territory-posting requirements. Their Delhi postings gave them exposure to the capital's district policing and specialised enforcement units before this round of transfers moved them onward to smaller, more geographically dispersed charges.

Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, Deepak Yadav, Vishnu Kumar, Anand Kumar Mishra and Satish Kumar — five officers — have all been posted to Jammu & Kashmir, the single largest destination in this reshuffle, as the Union Territory continues to draw additional police manpower under its evolving security administration. The concentration of postings to Jammu & Kashmir in this single order is notably larger than the numbers sent to any other AGMUT territory.

Dhirendra Pratap Singh, Nishant Gupta and Amit Kaushik will join the Mizoram segment of the cadre, while Rishi Kumar moves to Arunachal Pradesh and Pawan Kumar to Ladakh — both frontier postings that typically carry additional operational responsibility given the security sensitivity of these regions and their proximity to international borders. Vinit Kumar has been shifted to Chandigarh, and Sikandar Singh moves to Puducherry, giving each of those Union Territory forces an additional AGMUT-cadre officer for their leadership ranks.

Patel Aalap Mansukh has been sent to Lakshadweep, the smallest and most geographically isolated of the postings in this order, reflecting the range of environments a single cadre's officers are expected to serve across, from the northeastern hills to the Arabian Sea archipelago. The Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh postings reflect the AGMUT cadre's standing requirement to staff northeastern Union Territories with rotational officers from the Delhi pool, a rotation that also applies in reverse once officers complete their UT tenures and return to the capital for their next posting.

The order was issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs and covers all 13 officers with immediate effect, part of the periodic reshuffles the cadre undergoes as officers complete standard tenure lengths in their current charges.