Bhubaneswar: The state government has promoted altogether 16 senior officers of Odisha Police Service (OPS) to the rank of Superintendent of Police (SP).
A notification in this regard has been issued by the State Home Department on Friday.
The senior OPS officers are now serving in the rank of Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP).
“Sixteen OPS (SB) officers i.e Additional Superintendent of Police are hereby promoted to the Grade of OPS (S) i.e Superintendent of Police of the OPS Cadre,” the notification said.
The promoted officers are: Tanuja Mohanty, Debabrata Chakra, K. Benugopal Acharya, Basudev Swain, Anil Kumar Beuria, Anirudha Routray, Vishnu Prasad Pati, Rabindra Kumar Panda, Gupteswar Bhoi, Sushanta Kumar Biswal, Manoj Kumar Rout, Uma Shankar Panda, Pradeep Kumar Pradhan, Chintamani Patra, Krushna Prasad Dash and Bishnu Prasad Patra.
On promotion to the rank of OPS (S), these officers are allowed to continue in their present place of posting until further orders.
Following are the details of the promoted OPS officers:
