Alok Verma to be next police commissioner of Delhi

February 17, 2016 20:34

Alok Verma, a 1979 batch IPS officer of the Union Territories cadre will be next commissioner of police in Delhi.

Sources said his name was cleared for the post in the evening. BS Bassi, the present commissioner is hanging in his boots on February 29.

Verma at present is director general of prisons in Delhi.

He was the senior-most officer in contention for the top post in Delhi police. Besides him, the other name in contention was of 1984 batch IPS officer Dharmendra Kumar.

Verma will take charge on March 1.

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