Bihar officers head five top police agencies

In a rare coincidence, top five police agencies of the country will have officers hailing from Bihar as their chiefs.

Kerala cadre 1979 batch IPS officer Dineshwar Sharma, who is set to take over as the Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief, is the latest entrant in the list of Bihar natives who have come to occupy the top posts at the same time.  Sharma, brought up in Pali village of Bihar’s Gaya district, is serving as the special director in the domestic spy agency. He will take over from IB director Asif Ibrahim, who retires on December 31.

Sharma was named for the top IB post within days of the appointment of another native of Bihar, Anil Kumar Sinha, as the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The Special Protection Group (SPG), which protects the Prime Minister, too, will have a person who comes from Bihar as its head. Gujarat cadre 1989 batch IPS officer Vivek Srivastav, selected as the new SPG chief hails from Bihar, where his father served as an IAS officer.