Maharashtra: New Thane police commissioner Ashutosh Dumbre takes charge

The new Thane police commissioner Ashutosh Dumbre took charge of his office on Thursday Ashutosh Dumbre was seen with outgoing police commissioner Jaijeet Singh at his office in ThaneThe Maharashtra government had on Monday appointed senior IPS officer Ashutosh Dumbre as the new Thane police commissionerThe state home department had issued an order about Ashutosh Dumbres new postingThe order also said that the incumbent police commissioner of Thane city Jaijeet Singh will now be the Director General of the AntiCorruption Bureau ACBAshutosh Dumbre a 1994batch IPS officer is currently posted as commissioner in the State Intelligence Department SIDThe senior IPS officer has served in various capacities during his decadeslong career Earlier he was posted in Thane city as its joint police commissioner and also served as Mumbais joint commissioner of crime and Economic Offences Wing EOW on different occasionsAshutosh Dumbre was awarded the Presidents Police Medal For Distinguished Service in 2021Meanwhile in a major reshuffle in April the Maharashtra government had issued orders for the transfer and promotion of 30 IPS officers including three to the director general of police DGP rank an official had earlier saidAs per the order issued by the Home Department senior IPS officers Sadanand Date Jaijeet Singh and Bipin Kumar Singh were promoted to the rank of DGPSadanand Date heading the Maharashtra AntiTerrorism Squad ATS is now the director general of the squadBipin Kumar Singh additional director general of the Economic Offences Wing has been made the managing director of Maharashtra State Security Corporation the order statedSenior IPS officer Manoj Lohiya has been transferred as the police commissioner of Aurangabad city replacing Nikhil Gupta it statedAt least 12 officers who were serving as deputy inspectors general DIG and additional commissioners of police have been promoted to the inspector general of police IGP rank the order saidThese officers include Mumbai Polices Central Region Additional Commissioner Anil Kumbhare who has been promoted to IG ATSAdditional CP Crime Dnyaneshwar Chavan has been promoted as IG Aurangabad Range while Additional CP Dilip Sawant has been made IG coastal security Nisar Tamboli is now IG administration in the Maharashtra Police Headquarters the order statedSenior IPS officer KMM Prasanna will serve as IG establishment at the Maharashtra Police Headquarters it saidIPS officers Abhivan Deshmukh Anil Paraskar M Ramkumar and Shashi Kumar Meena have been promoted as additional commissioners of police while Deepak Sakore has been transferred as additional commissioner crime in Navi Mumbai Police the order stated