In a major reshuffle at the Indian Police Service (IPS) level, the Odisha government on Saturday transferred and reassigned 18 senior IPS and OPS officers to new posts across the state.

As per the notification issued by the Home Department, Nabarangpur SP Madkar Sandeep Sampat has been posted as DIG of CID-CB, Cuttack. Nayagarh SP Parmar Smit Parshottamdas has been transferred as SP of Nayagarh, while Khordha SP Vivekananda Sharma has been appointed as SP of CID-CB, Cuttack.

Rayagada SP Swati S. Kumar has been posted as SP of STF, Bhubaneswar, and Bargarh SP Prahlad Sahai Meena has been appointed as Gajapati SP. Similarly, Nayagarh SP S. Sushree has been shifted as Vigilance SP, while Special Branch SP Raj Prasad has been posted as Rayagada SP.

Ganjam SP Shubhendu Kumar Patra has been transferred as Khordha SP, Boudh SP Rahul Goel as SP of Special Branch, and Kandhamal SP Harisha B.C. as Ganjam SP.

Among other changes, Bhadrak Additional SP Kashyap Partha Jagadish has been promoted and appointed as Nabarangpur SP, while Rayagada Additional SP Ramendra Prasad has been promoted as Kandhamal SP.

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Governor’s ADC Kuldeep Meena has been appointed as Boudh SP, whereas Cuttack UPD ACP Ananya Awasthi has been posted as the new ADC to the Governor.

In the OPS cadre, CID-CB SP Krishna Prasad Pattnaik has been transferred as SP, Signals, while STF Bhubaneswar SP Rabindra Nath Satpathy has been posted as Bargarh SP. Special Branch SP Krishna Prasad Das has been appointed as SRP, Rourkela, and Bhubaneswar-Cuttack UPD DCP Kishore Chandra Munda has been posted as Deogarh SP.