Chandigarh, July 16 -- Panjab University (PU) alumnus Sagar Preet Hooda has been appointed the director general of police (DGP) Chandigarh.

A Union home ministry order, released on Tuesday, read: "Dr Sagar Preet Hooda, a 1997-batch AGMUT-cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, is hereby transferred from Delhi to Chandigarh and posted as DGP with immediate effect until further orders."

Hooda was serving as special commissioner with Delhi Police since January 2024. Prior to this, he held the position of special commissioner of police (law and order) from January 2022 to January 2024. In an earlier tenure, he served as joint commissioner of police, Delhi, between February 2021 and February 2022.

He pursued PhD in sociology from PU (199...