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| awards = [[File:IND President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service.png|30px]] [[President's Police Medal]] for Distinguished Service. | | awards = [[File:IND President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service.png|30px]] [[President's Police Medal]] for Distinguished Service. | ||
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'''Dattatray "Datta" Padsalgikar''' (born 26 August 1958) is a senior Indian [[Indian Police Service|IPS]] officer of Maharashtra Cadre, who was, on 30 June 2018, named as the new Director General of Police of Maharashtra and | '''Dattatray "Datta" Padsalgikar''' (born 26 August 1958) is a senior Indian [[Indian Police Service|IPS]] officer of Maharashtra Cadre, who was, on 30 June 2018, named as the new Director General of Police of Maharashtra and succeeded Satish Mathur. | ||
==Career== | |||
An [[Indian Police Service]] (IPS) officer of the 1982 batch, Padsalgikar was on deputation to the central government in the [[Intelligence Bureau (India)|Intelligence Bureau]] (IB) for a few years until he was named as the new Mumbai police commissioner in 30 January 2016 succeeding [[Ahmed Javed|Ahmad Javed]]. He served as CP till 29 June 2018, when he was appointed as Maha DGP. On 29 October 2019, he was appointed as Deputy [[National Security Advisor (India)|National Security Advisor of India]].<ref>https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/former-maha-dgp-appointed-deputy-nsa/articleshow/71812445.cms</ref> | |||
Padsalgikar hails from a town on the Solapur-Bijapur border, Mr Padsalgikar has a master's degree in French literature from Pune. After serving initial postings as Additional Superintendent of Police in Nagpur, Karad and Nashik he was promoted and went on to serve as Superintendent of Police in Osmanabad and Satara, following which he served his first stint in the IB in the early 90s.<ref name=H1>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/news/IB-man-Padsalgikar-crucial-for-Mumbai-Police/article14029386.ece | title= IB man Padsalgikar crucial for Mumbai Police | date=31 January 2016 | first=Gautam S | last=Mengle | newspaper=The Hindu | accessdate=14 September 2018 }}</ref> | Padsalgikar hails from a town on the Solapur-Bijapur border, Mr Padsalgikar has a master's degree in French literature from Pune. After serving initial postings as Additional Superintendent of Police in Nagpur, Karad and Nashik he was promoted and went on to serve as Superintendent of Police in Osmanabad and Satara, following which he served his first stint in the IB in the early 90s.<ref name=H1>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/news/IB-man-Padsalgikar-crucial-for-Mumbai-Police/article14029386.ece | title= IB man Padsalgikar crucial for Mumbai Police | date=31 January 2016 | first=Gautam S | last=Mengle | newspaper=The Hindu | accessdate=14 September 2018 }}</ref> | ||