Retired director basic of the Border Security Force (BSF) Pankaj Kumar Singh has been appointed as deputy nationwide safety adviser.

According to an official order, Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed on a re-employment contract for a interval of two years.

Singh retired as BSF chief on December 31, 2022. When Singh took cost of the BSF on August 31, 2021, he had created historical past of a son and a father holding the highest put up of a paramilitary pressure throughout their providers.

His father and retired IPS officer of the 1959-batch, Prakash Singh, had additionally headed the BSF from June, 1993 to January, 1994.

Prakash Singh is taken into account an architect of police reforms within the nation.

He had petitioned the Supreme Court in 1996 for finishing up reforms within the police institution following which the federal government began giving a hard and fast tenure of two years a minimum of to the chief of the Intelligence Bureau, the CBI, international secretary, the RAW chief and the Union dwelling secretary.

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