Rajesh_Kumar_Pandey
Rajesh Kumar Pandey
Indian Police Service officer
Rajesh Kumar Pandey, PMG & Three Bars, PM, UNM (Hindi: राजेश कुमार पाण्डेय; born 15 June 1961), also known as Rajesh Pandey, is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the IPS-SPS 2003 batch, Uttar Pradesh cadre.[5][6][7][8]
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][9][10]
He has been awarded the President's Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) four times in 1999, 2000, 2007 and 2016.[11][12][13][14][15] During his deputation to the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo, he was conferred with the United Nations Medal in 2008.[16][17] He retired from the Uttar Pradesh Police as IG, Election Cell on 30 June 2021, after 35 years of service.[4][7][18][19]
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.[9][20]