Gurgaon gets its first woman police commissioner, to take charge today

Ramachandran told The Indian Express that her priority would be improving the lives of citizens and facilitating ease of doing business. “Gurgaon being a city with diverse milieu, from rural to corporate to industrial to urban residential, the focus will be on facilitation of ease of doing business and to make life easier for everyone. The focus of the police should be on improving the lives of common citizens,” she said.

Traffic management and road safety are the priority areas in that respect, said the police chief. “One thing that affects everyone is traffic. The security of citizens from street crimes such as hooliganism, snatchings, eve-teasing and drunken driving, and security of women and minors would remain a key priority. Women should be safe and that’s the sign of a mature society also that women can go out of the house without fear. We will also focus on economic offences and cybercrimes,” she said.

She added that after taking charge and discussing with police officers on the ground, a better evaluation of major issues and concerns would be made and, accordingly, plans would be formalised to curb crime.

Ramachandran has earlier had stints as SP in Rewari, Fatehabad and Panchkula. From 2001 onwards, she was on central deputation to the Intelligence Bureau. She headed the North Eastern Police Academy in Meghalaya from 2017-2020, and then returned to the cadre in August 2020. She has served as ADGP crime against women (CAW), Headquarter, and ADGP State Vigilance Bureau.

Outgoing police chief K K Rao, a 1996 batch IPS officer, has been transferred as inspector general of police (IGP), CPT and R, Bhondsi. Rao had taken charge in Gurgaon on June 30, 2020, in his second tenure as commissioner. He had been in the post for eight months from June 2018 to February 2019, following which he was transferred as Faridabad police commissioner.