Datta Padsalgikar to Replace Ahmed Javed as Mumbai Police Chief

IPS officer Datta Padsalgikar is all set to replace Ahmed Javed as Mumbai’s Police Commissioner.

Outgoing Mumbai Police Commissioner Javed Ahmed (L) will retire to make way for Datta Padsalgikar (R). (Photo altered by The Quint)

Senior IPS officer Datta Padsalgikar, who has worked with the Intelligence Bureau, is all set to replace Ahmed Javed as Mumbai’s Police Commissioner.

Javed will retire from the police force on January 31. The 1980-batch IPS officer, whose next assignment is the Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, had replaced Rakesh Maria as police commissioner in midst of the Sheena Bora murder probe on September 8 last year.

Javed, who worked in police force for 36 years, said he was proud about his new role.

Post retirement, I will be working for the country again, for which I feel proud. I will take more than two weeks to complete the formalities and go to Saudi Arabia to take up new responsibilities...It is rare that Mumbai police chiefs retire as a commissioner as they are usually transferred to other postings.

In his media interaction on Friday, the top cop said the challenge of putting bundobast or deployment stood out among other things for him while helming the city police force.

“There are several things, but (putting) bundobast in the city was the most challenging thing as a police commissioner as several festivals had come together last year,” Javed said.