Sanjay Srivastava takes over as Ahmedabad police chief

AHMEDABAD: Sanjay Srivastava, a 1987-batch

IPS officer

, took charge as city

police commissioner

on Monday noon from DGP Ashish Bhatia, who was appointed the state’s director general of police (DGP) on Friday to succeed

Shivanand Jha

.

Srivastava told mediapersons that fighting

cybercrime

and taking forward the work of ‘She’ teams formed by Bhatia would be his priorities, besides maintaining law and order. “I will also work towards implementing the guidelines for Covid-19 issued by the government to try to keep the city safe. Serve to secure will be my motto,” Srivastava said.

Bhatia said missing children is a big issue in the state and that he would work hard on the issue. He also said his emphasis would be on controlling crime and terrorist activities.

Bhatia said he would take the projects started by Jha and try to make

Gujarat Police

among the best.


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