J&K Superintendent of Police Harmeet Singh, who was in-charge of Sopore in north Kashmir, has been transferred and posted as SP Kulgam, replacing Shridhar Patil, who has been transferred to Kathua.
Shailendra Kumar Mishra, a 2009-batch IPS officer, who was posted in the police lines, has been appointed the Senior Superintendent of Police of Shopian, another militancy-hit district in South Kashmir. He replaces Ambarkar Shriram Dinkar, an IPS officer of the 2011 batch, who has been shifted to the border district of Kupwara.
Superintendent of Police, Kupwara, Shamsher Hussain has been made the commandant of 13th battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police.
Javid Iqbal, Superintendent of Police at the police control room in Srinagar, has been appointed the district police chief of Sopore, which is considered the gateway for militants infiltrating from across the border.