Uttar Pradesh DGP Appointment and Policing Reforms
Cyber fraud. It’s become one of the biggest headaches for law enforcement right now. That’s what Uttar Pradesh’s newly appointed permanent DGP, Rajeev Krishna , threw out there on Monday. He said the state police are finally going to lean hard into artificial intelligence and advanced tech to deal with digital crime.
He held his first press conference after taking the top job, laying out ten things he thinks will guide policing for the next few years. It felt less like a formal announcement and more like a roadmap, or maybe a scorecard, depending on how you look at it.
Krishna pointed out that the UP Police already did some heavy lifting. They’ve trained over sixty-two thousand officers in cybercrime investigation and prevention. That’s the most, they said, among all the states. But now the focus shifts. It’s about pushing those advanced cyber policing skills . He also mentioned setting up a big, centrally managed advanced cyber security center right at the Police Headquarters. A place to really beef up the state’s ability to fight online fraud and attacks.
There were other things he brought up too. He talked about what happened over the last year while he was acting DGP. He said crimes against women actually dropped by thirty-three percent. He linked that drop to faster responses and some focused action. To keep that momentum going, they’re setting up Women Power Centres in every single police station. The idea is to make sure there’s immediate action when women are involved.
Traffic and road safety came up next, too. That’s part of the agenda. Krishna mentioned the crash control teams they set up. Five hundred seventy-three of them across the state, trying to find the worst accident spots and improve emergency response times. Those efforts actually helped cut down road accidents by seven and a half percent, and fatalities by eleven and a half percent in the areas they focused on. Now, they plan to roll that same setup out everywhere.
He kept pushing on the zero-tolerance line. The Yogi government’s policy—no exceptions for crime—that stays the same. He brought up that murder of a hotel businessman’s son in Ghazipur. He called that incident "serious." And he made it clear: strict action is happening against everyone involved. If any police officer was sloppy in that case, they too will face tough discipline.
This whole shift happened quickly. The government had formally appointed Krishna as the full-time DGP just a few months before. It ended a long stretch where the police force was run by a bunch of acting chiefs.
The appointment itself followed a process. It went through the UPSC, the Supreme Court directions, and then the state government’s selection from a list of names. Renuka Mishra, Piyush Anand, and Rajeev Krishna were shortlisted. The Yogi administration picked Krishna.
Krishna himself has a long history in the force. He’s a nineteen-batch IPS officer. He spent more than thirty years moving around Uttar Pradesh. He started training in Allahabad, now Prayagraj. He moved through various postings—Assistant Superintendent of Police in Bareilly, Kanpur, Aligarh. He became SP in Firozabad in ’97. He handled big districts like Agra, Lucknow, and Gautam Buddh Nagar.
He even served as DIG of Lucknow during the BSP government under Mayawati. Later he was in Meerut Range and had a stint on central deputation in 2012. When he came back to UP in 2017, he started at the Police Academy in Moradabad. Then came the ADG roles, moving through the Lucknow and Agra Zones.
It seems his time spent in those sensitive districts, dealing with law and order, gave him the background he needed for this top role. His family also has roots in the service—his wife is an IRS officer, and his brother-in-law is a sitting MLA. It’s a family steeped in the civil service.
The DGP post itself had been empty since May 2022, after the Yogi government replaced the previous chief. There was that messy period with the acting chiefs—Chauhan, Vishwakarma, Kumar. Now, with a guaranteed two-year tenure, and service until 2029, Krishna is expected to bring some real stability to the police leadership, especially as the state gears up for the big 2027 elections. It’s a lot of responsibility hanging over him.
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