NEW DELHI: Former SPG Chief and senior IPS officer K Durga Prasad today joined the country’s largest paramilitary force CRPF as its Special Director General.
Prasad, a 1981-batch officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, took over formal charge at the force headquarters here and he will soon undertake a tour of the field formations in the country, including those in the anti-Naxal operations grid, officials said.
He was shunted out as the Director of the elite Special Protection Group (SPG) in November last year when he was accompanying Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Kathmandu for the SAARC Summit.
Prasad has earlier been with the Central Reserve Police Force and has been credited with raising the elite special anti-Naxal operations unit in the force– Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA)– in 2008 as its Inspector General.
He returned to his state cadre mid-way then as he wanted the CoBRA headquarters to be based somewhere in the Naxal-hit areas and not in the national capital.
CoBRA is ten battalions-strong now with its 10,000 commandos deployed largely in the Maoist violence-affected states of the country.
Prasad is expected to handle the operations or take charge of the central range (comprising Naxal-affected states) in the force comprising three lakh personnel. (Agencies)
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