Gujarat Police loses a brilliant officer as Sudhir Sinha retires today

Ahmedabad, 31 October, 2011

Gujarat’s one of the popular IPS officers, Ahmedabad city police commissioner Shri Sudhir Sinha will retire today.

Sinha was made Ahmedabad Police Commissioner on 1st June this year. He was to retire o 31st of July, but was given extension of three months by central government on request of Gujarat government.

Soon after taking charge as Ahmedabad Police Commissioner, Shri Sinha had announced that common people would be able to meet him between 11.00 am and 2.00 pm.

Sinha had also announced his personal mobile number (8980002800) adding that any common citizen would be allowed to call him over phone between 7.00 – 10.00 pm.

Sinha is only police officer in Gujarat Police who has been Police Commissioner of all four important cities of the state namely Surat, Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Rajkot.

During his tenure as Ahmedabad’s Police Commissioner, Shri Sinha set up new police stations and got sanction for more personnel for the city. He initiated a project of creating network of 300 CCTV cameras in the city in a public-private partnership.

Even amid pressure from vocal leftists/socialist NGOs and some IPS officers, Sinha continued to allow his policemen to do what was needed to be done according to law in suspended IPS Sanjiv Bhatt case.

Ahmedabad city police has organized Shri Sinha’s farewell party today evening, while state police will give farewell to Shri Sinha on 5 November.