Rajesh Kumar Pandey

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Rajesh Kumar Pandey
PMG & Three Bars, PM, UNM
Personal details
Born (1961-06-15) 15 June 1961 (age 64)
Bara, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India[1][2]
CitizenshipIndian
SpouseMeenu Pandey[2]
Children2[2]
EducationB.Sc., M.Sc. (Botany)[1]
Alma materAllahabad University[1]
Police career
Country India
DepartmentUttar Pradesh Police
Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP STF)
Anti-Terrorism Squad (UP ATS)
Service years1989-2021[1][3][4]
RankInspector General
Badge no.20062538
Awards President’s Police Medal for Gallantry & Three Bars
File:IND Police Medal for Meritorious Service.png Police Medal for Meritorious Service
File:UN UNMIK Medal ribbon.svg United Nations Medal (UNMIK)

Rajesh Kumar Pandey, PMG & Three Bars, PM, UNM (Hindi: राजेश कुमार पाण्डेय; born 15 June 1961), also known as Rajesh Pandey, is a retired IPS officer (promoted from PPS) cadre of the IPS-SPS 2003 batch Uttar Pradesh.[5][6][7][8] He was inducted into the Indian Police Service in 2005.[9][10]

He was selected as P.P.S. officer of 1986 batch through Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission. He joined U.P. Police as Deputy S.P. on 21 February 1989.[10] He is the founding member of Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP STF) and the state's counterterrorism unit, Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).[3][5][6][11][12]

He has been awarded the President's Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) four times in 1999, 2000, 2007 and 2016.[13][14][15][16][17] During his deputation to the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo, he was conferred with the United Nations Medal in 2008.[18][19] He retired from the Uttar Pradesh Police as IG, Election Cell on 30 June 2021, after 32 years of service.[4][7][20][21]

Following his retirement, the Government of Uttar Pradesh appointed him as the nodal security officer of UPEIDA and Purvanchal Expressway.[3] In 2023, Pandey co-authored his first book Operation Bazooka along with journalist and media-studies professor, Rakesh Goswami.[11][22]

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