Madhya Pradesh Transfers 64 DSP-Rank State Police Officers in Major Reshuffle

The Madhya Pradesh government has issued transfer orders for 64 state police officers of the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police and Assistant Superintendent of Police, in one of the larger police reshuffles the state has undertaken this year. The transfers span district postings, the HawkForce anti-crime unit, the Special Armed Force battalions, and the Police Headquarters.

The scale of the transfer — 64 officers in a single order — reflects the state government's approach to managing officer distribution across Madhya Pradesh's 55 districts and its specialised police units. Routine reshuffles at this level ensure that officers do not remain in the same posting for extended periods, rotate out of high-pressure placements, and are moved into areas where operational requirements are greatest. The DSP and ASP rank is the backbone of sub-divisional supervision across the state, managing police circles, supervising investigations, and commanding specialised units.

A significant cluster of transfers involves the HawkForce, Balaghat — the state's anti-organised crime strike force that was deployed intensively in the Balaghat-Seoni belt to address illegal mining, sand mafia operations, and forest crime. Multiple officers serving as Assistant Commandants in HawkForce, Balaghat, are being redistributed across the state to sub-divisional postings in Ujjain, Indore, Gwalior, Bhopal, and Rewa divisions. In parallel, a set of DSP and ASP officers from district postings is being moved into HawkForce to replenish its operational strength — a rotation model that prevents both unit fatigue in the strike force and institutional stagnation in the sending districts.

Among the notable individual transfers: Ravi Prakash Singh Bhadoria moves from SDOP, Ambah, Morena, to Circle SP, Gwalior; Niti Rajesh Dandotia moves from Assistant Commandant, RAPTC, Indore, to ACP, Sanyogitaganj, Indore; Vivek Singh Chouhan moves from ACP Malharganj, Indore, to DSP, PHQ, Bhopal; and Sanjay Chaturvedi from SDOP Shivpuri to Commandant, 26th Battalion, SAF, Guna. Several officers are also moving from the Lokayukta special police establishment to line district postings.

The Special Armed Force (SAF) battalions, which appear in several transfer designations — including the 2nd, 8th, 15th, 26th, and 29th Battalions — are the Madhya Pradesh Armed Police's reserve units, used for internal security duties, election deployment, and VIP protection. Multiple officers are being inducted into these battalion assistant commandant roles from district and headquarters positions, adding to the SAF's operational strength ahead of what is typically a demanding deployment season.

Among trainee DSPs — the most recently inducted cohort completing their district attachment periods — several are being given substantive field postings for the first time. Lalit Bairagi moves from a trainee posting in Chhindwara to SDOP Chitrangi, Singrauli; Harsh Rathore from Chhatarpur to SDOP Jawad, Neemuch; Hemant Kumar to CSP, Vindhyanagar; Annapurna Sirsam to SDOP Betul; and Gagan Hanwal to SDOP Bhitarwar, Gwalior. These assignments mark the formal conclusion of their training phase and the beginning of independent charge postings.

The transfer orders were issued by the Madhya Pradesh Home Department and take effect immediately. The reshuffle is one of the largest police personnel movements in the state in 2026 at the sub-gazetted officer level.