Today's Witness Tuesday, 05 August 2025, 02:14 PM, ( Updated at 11:30 AM Daily)
BUREAURCRACY
Friday, 25 August, 2023 10:32:AM
Delhi Police Commissioner today completes 35 years in the service, a reflection on his illustrious 35 years of service with two more to go suggests that Sanjay Arora needs to be looked beyond his experience and achievements because these 35 years were more of how he thought, experience learning and attitude rather than counting baggage of achievements and making a hyperbole of it. It won't be incorrect to say that Arora is a believer in wit and capability, which perhaps he learned after seeing both the terrains of hard and soft with a wide scan- from cadre policing to operations, looking after the security of former Tamil Nadu CM and LTTE threat to paramilitary forces, especially in ITBP where he learned and realised about the need to enhance mountain warfare skills and formed mountain warfare unit and also established India's first mountain warfare school in North East(Sikkim). The sense of wit and capability helps him to keep himself steady while making a decision, and this habit perhaps nurtures a sense of sagaciousness and a gentleman code that very few in the service develop. A tall and calm personality, added with suave and brilliance, made him a perfect fit for all seasons. Last year, when he made a surprise entry in Delhi Police, a long time gentleman vacuum was filled because the Commissioner's office has rarely seen IPS officers with a gentleman code having both wit and sagaciousness, like in early times- K.K Paul, Bhim Sain Bassi, Alok Verma and Amulya Patnaik. Top sources say that Sanjay Arora is redefining his learnings of wit and capability in Delhi Police, which got lost in the span of four years of the force. With two more years to go, Sanjay Arora has a chance to make a few more additions to his working style from his Delhi Police experience, as after K.K Paul, Amulya Patnaik, he will be the third Delhi Police Commissioner to serve a long stint in Delhi Police.