Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has appointed Anurag Sharma as the full-fledged Director-General of Police of Telangana.
KCR signed the file appointing him as the full-time DGP today.
It may be stated here that the State government had sent a list of five officials to the UPSC for the position which had selected three names - incharge DGP Anurag Sharma, ACB Director-General A K Khan and Police Academy chief Aruna Bahuguna - and returned the file to the government. The KCR government picked Anurag Sharma and confirmed his appointment.
A 1982 batch IPS officer, Sharma hails from Rajasthan and discharged duties at various levels. Before becoming the in-charge DGP, he was the Hyderabad City Police Commissioner.
Sharma has worked in several key posts connected with anti-Naxal operations, and was also deputed to the Central Industrial Security Force. He has had exposure in both urban and rural policing after he joined the IPS cadre in 1982.
He also held several sensitive posts like that of the Superintendent of Police of the Ranga Reddy and Mahabubnagar districts, the Group Commander - Operations of Greyhounds, the DCP of Hyderabad's Old City and the DIG and Special Inspector-General of Intelligence. He was the chief of Greyhounds till 2010 and later took over as Commissioner of Police of the city.
He also served as Director of the National Industrial Security Academy, and won the President's Police Medal, Aantrik Suraksha Seva Padak.
Sharma holds a masters' degree in Botany from the University of Rajasthan and a post-graduate diploma in Human Resources Management from LIBA in Chennai. He was trained abroad in hostage negotiations.