Golcha, presently posted as Director Normal of Tihar Jail, Delhi, is an IPS officer of 1992 batch. He has earlier served because the deputy commissioner of police (DCP), joint commissioner and particular commissioner of Delhi Police.
He was recognised for his actions because the particular commissioner of police (legislation and order) throughout riots in northeast Delhi in 2020. He additionally served because the director common of police (DGP) of Arunachal Pradesh from February 2022 to June 2023, earlier than he was transferred again to Delhi.
“With the approval of the Competent Authority, Sh. Satish Golcha, IPS (AGMUT:1992), presently posted as Director Normal (Prisons), Delhi, is hereby appointed to the publish of the Commissioner of Police, Delhi with impact from the date of assumption of cost and till additional orders,” an order by the house ministry stated.
Golcha has changed S B Okay Singh, Director Normal of House Guards, who was serving as performing commissioner of Delhi Police by the house ministry on August 1.
The appointment comes solely a day after Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was attacked at a weekly public listening to at her official residence in Civil Strains.The chief minister was attacked by a 41-year-old man who got here from Gujarat's Rajkot. He had entered posing as a complainant. The accused, Rajeshbhai Khimjibhai Sakriya, an auto driver in Rajkot, was overpowered by the CM's safety crew and others current there.An FIR below sections pertaining to aim to homicide has been filed in opposition to him.