Arvind Kumar (born 30 September 1959) is a retired 1984 (37RR) batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre

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, and is a former

Director of the Intelligence Bureau The Director of the Intelligence Bureau (DIB) is the chief executive of the Intelligence Bureau, India's premier domestic-intelligence agency. The DIB is the senior-most Indian Police Service officer of India. The current director of Intellige ...

. the senior-most ranked IPS officer. After retirement, he was appointed as a Vigilance Commissioner of the

Central Vigilance Commission Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is an Indian governmental body created in 1964 to address governmental corruption. In 2003, the Parliament enacted a law conferring statutory status on the CVC. It has the status of an autonomous body, free ...

(CVC) on 3 August 2022 and served there till 30 September 2024. Kumar joined the Intelligence Bureau in 1991. On June 26, 2019, he was appointed the 27th director of the bureau, succeeding

Rajiv Jain Rajiv Jain (born 17 March 1957) was the Director of the Intelligence Bureau of India. He belonged to 1980 batch of the Indian Police Service. He is from the Jharkhand cadre and was appointed on 1 January 2017 as the 26th Director of Intelligen ...

. He is a recipient of the

President's Police Medal The President's Police Medal is a decoration awarded to members of law enforcement in India. Established on 1 March 1951, the medal was originally called the President's Police and Fire Service Medal. The medal is awarded for either gallantry or di ...

for Distinguished Service and consistent performance.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kumar, Arvind Indian police officers Living people Directors of Intelligence Bureau (India) Netarhat Residential School alumni 1959 births People from Madhepura district Bihar Police 20th-century Indian civil servants 21st-century Indian civil servants Spymasters Indian Police Service officers