S. P. Vaid Explained

Shesh Paul Vaid
Office:	Director General of Police of Jammu and Kashmir Police
Term:	31 December 2016 - 6 September 2018
Birth Name:	Shesh Paul Vaid
Birth Date:	1959 10, df=yes^[1]
Birth Place:	Mahanpur, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Allegiance:	India
Service:	Indian Police Service
Serviceyears:	25 August 1986 – 31 October 2019^[2]
Department:	Jammu & Kashmir Police (JKP)
Rank:	Director General of Police (DGP) (till September 2018)
Awards:	President's Police Medal For Distinguished Service (PPMDS) – 2010^[3] COAS Commendation Card – 2008^[4] Police Medal For Meritorious Service (PMMS) – 2002^[5] Sher-i-Kashmir Police Medal for Meritorious Service – 2002^[6] Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) – 2002 Internal Security Medal – 2001^[7] Indian Wound Medal – 2001 Director General of Police Jammu & Kashmir Police Medal (DGPPM) – 1998^[8]
Alma Mater:	Madras Veterinary College SVP National Police Academy
Spouse:	Bharti Vaid (IIS)
Children:	1
Predecessor:	K. Rajendra Kumar
Successor:	Dilbag Singh

Shesh Paul Vaid, also known as S. P. Vaid, is an Indian police officer and former Director General of Police (DGP) of Jammu & Kashmir from 31 December 2016 till 6 September 2018.^{[9] [10]}

Personal life

Vaid was born and raised in the Mahanpur town of Kathua district in the Jammu Division of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1959 into a Dogra family.^{[11] [12]} Vaid graduated in Veterinary Science (B.V.Sc) from Madras Veterinary College in the Vepery neighbourhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu and then from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. He qualified for the Civil Services and was allotted the Indian Police Service (IPS) on 25 August 1986 with Jammu and Kashmir cadre.^[13]

Vaid is married to Bharti Vaid, an Indian Information Service officer. They have a daughter, Shivangi.^[14]

Career

From 1988 to 1990, he was the Additional Superintendent of Police in Badgam and was promoted as Superintendent in the same district in 1990, the year when he faced maximum militant attacks. He also topped the International Commanders' programme at Police staff College at UK.^[15]

In the course of his career, he has served as Deputy Inspector General of Police of Jammu, as Inspector General (Crime), IGP (Home Guards and Civil Defence), as Inspector General Modernisation Police Headquarters,^[16] as Inspector General of Police of Jammu, as IGP Crime and Railways (2008) and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Traffic Jammu & Kashmir. In 2009, he was sent on deputation to Bureau of Police Research and Development(BPR&D) in New Delhi^{[17] [18]} where he was initially posted as Director of Special Policing, then as Director of Training^[19] and in the last few months of his deputation as the Director of Administration.^{[20] [21]}

In February 2010, Dr. S P Vaid was also appointed as the new Secretary of Central Indian Police Service Association (CIPSA) as an additional central charge besides his assignment in Bureau of Police Research & Development.^{[22] [23]}

in June 2011, Dr Vaid was promoted to the senior Indian police rank of Additional Director General of Police.^{[24] [25]} Consequently, he returned to his parent cadre in September 2011and in November 2011, the Jammu and Kashmir State Cabinet ordered the posting of Vaid as Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Headquarters (PHQ).^[26]

On 3 March 2016, Vaid was promoted to the grade of Director General (DG), and was subsequently appointed as Director General of Police (Prisons).^[27] On 8 September 2016, Vaid was transferred and posted as Special DG (Coordination and Law & Order). The post of Special D.G Coordination held by S.K Mishra had been re-designated as Special DG (Coordination and Law & Order) till held by the officer.^{[28] [29]}

On 28 December 2016, The State Cabinet confirmed the name of S.P. Vaid as new Director General of Police (DGP) of Jammu and Kashmir Police. The decision was taken in the State Cabinet meeting headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu. On 31 December 2016, Vaid took over the charge of Director General of Police from K. Rajendra Kumar.^{[30] [31] [32]}

Notable contributions to law and order in Kashmir

Vaid has played a role in many notable events in the state and made attempts to facilitate the improvement of law and order and police-community relations.

• In December 1999 Vaid supervised the release from Kot Bhalwal jail of Pakistani mujaheddin leader and the founder of the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed, Azhar Masood, who was exchanged for passengers on the hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 (IC-814).^[33]
• On 29 January 2002, there was a specific information that a group of Al-Badr militants were waiting for other terrorist associates to conduct a meeting to plan subversive activities in Srinagar. Vaid, then DIG of Police Range Srinagar planned a joint operation along with BSF and J&K Police SOG to apprehend the militants. The same night Vaid got the area cordoned off with the help of BSF/SOG and local police so as to ensure that militants do not escape during night taking the advantage of darkness. The held up militants tried to take the BSF personnel hostage who were trapped inside but an assault was launched by Vaid along with other officers and in the process managed to rescue one BSF Jawan. In an official statement from the President's Secretariat, the President of India awarded Vaid the President's Police Medal for gallantry:
• In August 2006 the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported about Vaid's involvement in a project with state-owned Bharat Petroleum to employ family members of the approximately 1,000 Jammu and Kashmir policemen who have died fighting separatists.^[34]
• In December 2006, as IGP Jammu, Vaid supervised the operation against the militants and regained control of the Kot Bhalwal prison following seven-hour clashes with more than 300 prisoners after the situation within the jail went out of control.^[35]
• Vaid served as a chairman of the session, "Regional Cooperation to Fight Terrorism", at the March 2009 Asia Pacific Regional Conference of The World Federation of United Nations Associations.^[36]
• In December 2011, Vaid inaugurated 2nd Police Martyr's Memorial North Zone Inter Club T-20 Cricket Championship 2011–12 in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. This tournament is said to have served the dual purpose of better Police-Public relations and honour to Martyr's families.^{[37] [38]}
• In the Burhan aftermath of the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen Commander, Burhan Wani in 2016, law and order situation in the Valley had spiralled out of control and the state government, while taking a serious note of it, shifted Vaid from the position of DG (prisons) and to Special DG (Law and order). After taking over the charge, Vaid camped in the Kashmir region and initiated various measures to make optimum use of the force so as to check rising casualties of both civilians and security forces through police-public interaction programmes in almost all districts of the Valley. Vaid has been credited for playing an important role in restoring peace and normalcy in the valley.^{[39] [40]}

Assassination attempts

While Deputy Inspector General of Police, Baramulla range in the Kashmir Valley, Vaid suffered a severe hand injury in March 1999 when 25 militants ambushed his car and two escort gypsies on the national highway, on his way to Baramulla after a review meeting at Srinagar where he was officiating as Inspector General. The militants, aware that his car was bullet-proof, hurled hand-grenades and used powerful universal machine guns which pierce through bullet-proof glass, instead of the commonly used AK-47s.^[41]

In 1990, while Superintendent in Badgam, Vaid was accompanying his wife along with their month-old daughter from Gulmarg to Badgam. Militants attacked the convoy killing two army men in the vehicle in front of his car. The apprehended militants later admitted that the attack was meant to assassinate him.

Positions held

Police appointments	Tenure
Director General of Police (DGP) – Jammu & Kashmir Police (JKP)	2016 – 6 September 2018
Special Director General of Police (DGP) – (Coordination and Law & Order)	2016 – 2016
Director General of Police (DGP) – Prisons	2016 – 2016
Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) – Headquarters	2011 – 2016
Secretary of Central Indian Police Service Association (CIPSA)	2010 – 2011
Director – Administration & Training of Bureau of Police Research & Development (New Delhi)	2009 – 2011
Inspector General of Police (IGP) – Traffic of Jammu & Kashmir	2008 – 2009
Inspector General of Police (IGP) – Crime & Railways of Jammu & Kashmir	2008 – 2008
Inspector General of Police (IGP) of Jammu (Range)	2004 – 2008
Inspector General of Police (IGP) – Modernization of Jammu & Kashmir	2003 – 2004
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) – Administration in J&K Police Headquarters	2003 – 2003
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) – Crime & Railways of Jammu & Kashmir	2002 – 2003
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of Kashmir (Range)	2001 – 2002
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of Jammu (Range)	1999 – 2001
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of Baramulla and Kupwara (Range)	1997 – 1999
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) – Crime & Railways of Jammu (Range)	1996 – 1997
Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) – Personnel in J&K Police Headquarters	1995 – 1996
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Udhampur (Range)	1993 – 1995
Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) – T&I in J&K Police Headquarters	1993 – 1993
Superintendent of Police (SP) of Leh (Range)	1993 – 1993
Superintendent of Police (SP) – City of Jammu	1991 – 1993
Superintendent of Police (SP) of J&K CID Cell (New Delhi)	1991 – 1991
Superintendent of Police (SP) of Badgam	1990 – 1991
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) of J&K Police Headquarters (Budgam)	1988 – 1990

See also

• Burhan aftermath
• Bureau of Police Research and Development
• Indian Airlines Flight 814
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• Indian Police
• Jammu & Kashmir Police
• List of people from Jammu and Kashmir

Notes and References

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9. News: SP Vaid Removed As Jammu And Kashmir Police Chief. NDTV.com. 6 September 2018.
10. News: Jammu and Kashmir police chief SP Vaid removed, Director General of Prisons Dilbagh Singh to take over. 6 September 2018. The Financial Express. 6 September 2018. en-US.
11. Vaid . Shesh Paul . spvaid . 15 February 2019 . 1096389117464719360 . 28 November 2022 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211211033743/https://twitter.com/spvaid/status/1096389117464719360 . 11 December 2021 . As a resident of J&K and a proud Dogra, we have always maintained communal harmony against highest provocations. Please don't fall prey to evil designs of our enemy who wants to divide our nation. May good sense prevail. . en .
12. News: Unceremonious removal of DGP Vaid, an insult to Dogras: Harsh . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221128000000/http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=241928 . 28 November 2022 . Early Times . 9 July 2018 . 28 November 2022 . Questioning the removal of Dr. SP Vaid, son of the soil and one of the most decorated Dogra officers. Alt URL
13. Web site: Indian Police Service (IPS) - Civil List. . Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) . 1 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161224155708/http://mha1.nic.in/IPS_Query.asp . 24 December 2016 . dead .
14. Web site: Amity University organises Scholarship Award Ceremony. . Kalaskar Educational Services . 29 January 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160902033721/http://kesstudent.com/details.php?id=1003 . 2 September 2016 . dead .
15. Web site: Injured Kashmir DIG vows to carry on despite his crushed hand. . ExpressIndia . 30 March 1999 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120307134119/http://www.expressindia.com/news/ie/daily/19990330/ige30063.html . 7 March 2012 . dead .
16. Web site: 32 senior police, civil officers transferred Vaid IGP Jammu, Makdoomi Srinagar; 2 SSPs promoted . 24 July 2002 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070704052945/http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/04oct26/news.htm . 4 July 2007 . dead .
17. Web site: At Least 84 Dead in Kashmir Attacks . 2 August 2000 . Global Policy Forum . 10 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090810203729/http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/187/34517.html . 10 August 2009 . dead .
18. Web site: J&K Governor shifts IG . 9 September 2008 . 10 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080912120807/http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/09/stories/2008090956101200.htm . 12 September 2008 . . dead .
19. Web site: Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) . 4 January 2010 . Ministry of Railways (MOR) . 10 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100201211545/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/deptts/rpf/Disaster_Risk.pdf . 1 February 2010 . dead .
20. Web site: Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPRD) Telephone Directory . 4 April 2010 . Bureau of Police Research & Development . 10 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100404014526/http://bprd.gov.in/home/directory.html . 4 April 2010 . dead .
21. Web site: List of IPS officers on Central Deputation (IG Level) . 23 June 2011 . Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) . 10 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110104084331/http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/CD-IG-LEVEL.pdf . 4 January 2011 . dead .
22. Web site: Vaid is Secretary All India IPS Association . 23 February 2010 . sureshmehrotra.com . 10 March 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120227031334/http://www.sureshmehrotra.com/archive/2010/Feb/23-2-2010.html . 27 February 2012 . dead .
23. Web site: S P VAID : Secretary All India IPS officers Association . 23 February 2010 . IndianBuzz.com . 10 March 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110713025023/http://www.indianbuzz.com/index.php?section=archives&news_from_Month=02&news_from_Day=23&news_from_Year=2010&news_to_Month=03&news_to_Day=2&news_to_Year=2010 . 13 July 2011 . dead .
24. Web site: Home deptt clears promotion of 7 top police officers . 17 June 2011 . EarlyTimes . 10 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120317175315/http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=75006 . 17 March 2012 . dead .
25. Web site: Vaid, Doley, Navin promoted as ADGPs . 23 June 2011 . GreaterKashmir . 10 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120405083711/http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2011/Jun/24/vaid-doley-navin-promoted-as-adgps-36.asp . 5 April 2012 . dead .
26. Web site: JK govt transfers 22 police officers . 24 November 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140917094113/http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5620996 . 17 September 2014 . dead .
27. Web site: SP Vaid is now DGP (Prison), JK . Bureaucracy Today . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161227103607/http://bureaucracytoday.com/top_news.aspx?id=154098 . 27 December 2016 . dead .
28. Web site: Reshuffle in JK civil, police administration. . The Kashmir Monitor . 8 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161227105614/http://kashmirmonitor.in/Details/109243/reshuffle-in-jk-civil-police-administration . 27 December 2016 . dead .
29. Web site: Cabinet approves transfers and postings in Police administration. . Kashmir Reader . 9 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160909165158/http://kashmirreader.com/2016/09/09/cabinet-approves-transfers-and-postings-in-police-administration/ . 9 September 2016 . dead .
30. Web site: As Kashmir violence threatens to start anew, new state DGP SP Vaid has his task cut out . Firstpost . 28 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161231121322/http://www.firstpost.com/india/as-kashmir-violence-threatens-to-start-anew-new-state-dgp-sp-vaid-has-his-task-cut-out-3178308.html . 31 December 2016 . dead .
31. Web site: S.P. Vaid to be J&K's new Director General of Police . Firstpost . 28 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161231121923/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/S.P.-Vaid-to-be-JK%E2%80%99s-new-Director-General-of-Police/article16955159.ece . 31 December 2016 .
32. Web site: Cabinet Decisions: Dr SP Vaid is new DGP . Firstpost . 28 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161231122303/http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/front-page/cabinet-decisions-dr-sp-vaid-is-new-dgp/237298.html . 31 December 2016. dead.
33. Web site: Even without Kandahar, Azhar may have walked out . 17 December 2008 . IndianExpress . 2 December 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160120185703/http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/even-without-kandahar-azhar-may-have-walked-out/399321/2 . 20 January 2016 . dead .
34. Web site: "Petrol pumps in Kashmir for kin of dead cops" . 10 December 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081201100829/http://www.indianmuslims.info/book/export/html/5628 . 1 December 2008 . dead .
35. Web site: Kashmir Police Aids Tihar Jail. Jammu jail search yields SIM cards, iron rods . 18 December 2006 . canadaupdates.com . 10 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120421035055/http://www.canadaupdates.com/node/6071 . 21 April 2012 . dead .
36. http://aprc.ifuna.org/images/conference-programme.doc Conference programme
37. Web site: DGP Dr Vaid inaugurates Police Martyrs Memorial Cricket Tournament . 17 December 2016 . DailyExcelsior . 28 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161220224754/http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/dgp-dr-vaid-inaugurates-police-martyrs-memorial-cricket-tournament/ . 20 December 2016 . dead .
38. Web site: ADGP Vaid declares open Police Martyrs T20 Tourney . 17 December 2016 . StateTimes . 28 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161228095443/http://news.statetimes.in/adgp-vaid-declares-open-police-martyrs-t20-tourney/ . 28 December 2016 . dead .
39. Web site: SP Vaid, Who Tackled Post-Wani Unrest, to Be New J&K Police Chief . 29 December 2016 . TheQuint . 29 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161230145748/https://www.thequint.com/kashmir-after-burhan-wani/2016/12/29/sp-vaid-dgp-tackled-post-burhan-wani-unrest-to-be-new-jammu-and-kashmir-police-chief-hizbul-mujahideen-curfew-hurriyat . 30 December 2016 . dead .
40. Web site: Saloora congratulates new DGP, expects massive improvement in the performance of JKP . 28 December 2016 . JK NEWS SERVICE . 28 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170103154734/http://www.jknewsservice.in/2016/12/28/saloora-congratulates-new-dgp-expects-massive-improvement-in-the-performance-of-jkp/ . 3 January 2017 . dead .
41. Web site: Policeman killed in militant attack on DIG's motorcade . 4 March 1999 . IndianExpress . 2 December 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195034/http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/mar/24jk.htm . 3 March 2016 . dead .