Anish Dayal Singh is a retired 1988- batch

Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service (IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became Partition of India, independent from the British Empire. Along with the Indian Admini ...

(IPS) officer from

Manipur Manipur () is a state in northeastern India with Imphal as its capital. It borders the Indian states of Assam to the west, Mizoram to the south, and Nagaland to the north and shares the international border with Myanmar, specifically t ...

cadre and served as the

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of the

Central Reserve Police Force The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is a central armed police force in India under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The CRPF assists states and Union Territories in maintaining law and order and internal security. It is composed of the Cent ...

of India from 1 January 2024 till 31 December 2024.

Early life and education

Singh was born in 1964 in

Prayagraj Prayagraj (, ; ISO 15919, ISO: ), formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi, Varanasi (Benar ...

city of

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, India and He hails from Rajput family and It was from here that he completed his primary and higher education. After being selected for the Indian Police Service in 1988, he completed training as a police officer at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy located in Hyderabad, Telangana. After completion of training, he was allotted Manipur cadre on 21 August 1989 and His brother Saumitra Dayal Singh is a judge in Allahabad High Court.

Career

Singh previously held an important position in his career, He served as the Director general (Additional Charge) of

ITBP The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is a central armed police force in India under the Ministry of Home Affairs. It is responsible for guarding India’s border with Tibet . It was formed in the aftermath of the Sino-Indian War of 1962. Hi ...

and SSB and served as the Director general of CRPF from 1 January 2024 and served there till 31 December 2024.

Awards

Singh was awarded to

Indian Police Medal The Indian Police Medal (IPM) was an award of the British Raj presented to both European and Asian police personnel. Established in 1932, the award was presented for meritorious service and gallantry that was of a lesser degree than what was requ ...

awarded by the

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for Meritorious Service (2004-2012) for his special service by the

of India. *PSDM Medal (twice; second time the medal was awarded in 1997). *Police Medal for Meritorious Service (PMMS) (twice; the second medal was given to him in 2004). *President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service (PPMDS) (2012).

References

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