Damodar Gautam Sawang is the chairman of

Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission The Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) was formed when the state of Andhra Pradesh formed on 1 November 1956. Earlier, the commission was known as the ''Andhra Service Commission'' (formed in 1953) which is based on the regulati ...

and a former

Director General of Police Director general of police (DGP) is a rank in the Indian Police Service, held by the highest ranking police officer in a State or a Union Territory of India, typically heading the state or the UT police force. The DGP is appointed by the cabin ...

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

. Sawang served as the

from 31 May 2019 to 15 February 2022. Sawang is a Regular Recruit of the

Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Raj. Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS ...

belonging to the 1986 batch and allocated to the

Andhra Pradesh Police The Andhra Pradesh Police is the law enforcement agency of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. Public order and police being a state subject in India, the police force is headed by the Director general of police, Kasireddy Rajendranadh Reddy H ...

cadre. After the bifurcation of

, Sawang was retained in the residual

State. Many police officers have been groomedUmesh Chandra
/ref> by Sawang during his posting in Warangal, including

Stephen Raveendra Muthyala Stephen Raveendra(ముత్యాల స్టీఫెన్ రవీంద్ర ) (born 14 February 1973) is the present Police commissioner of Cyberabad Metropolitan Police since from 25 August 2021. He was earlier, Inspector ...

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