Introduction
Kiran Bedi is the first woman to have joined the officer ranks of Indian Police Service 1972.
She is the 24th Lt Governor of Puducherry and has served the United Nations as Civilian Police Advisor in Peace Keeping Operations.
She is PHD from IIT Delhi with a post doctoral Nehru Fellowship. She is an author of several books— Latest being Fearless Governance.
She is an Asian tennis champion. Winner of gallantry award and the Magsaysay Award also known as Asia’s Nobel Peace Award. She has a biopic on her life called Yes Madam Sir. Made by an Australian Megan Doneman.
She founded two Foundations, Navjyoti India Foundation and India Vision Foundation which serve the under privileged in rural , urban areas and in prisons for last 30 years.
Her latest book Fearless Governance based on ground realities as she saw in serving as the Lt Governor Puducherry as released by Ms Indra Nooyi and Prof Debashish Chatterjee They called it a “blue print for Good Governance cutting across leadership qualities both, in private and public sector”.
Tennis
She grew up playing tennis and believing that in this world there is no time for losers. To be a winner one just needed the right attitude and right strategies. Her father used to tell her, “ life is on an incline you either go up or you come down,” and she knew she had to always work her way up the ladder.
Training at National Police Academy Mt Abu
Kiran Bedi reported to the National Police Academy, Mt Abu as the only woman in a batch of 80 for her police training.
She broke the glass ceiling becoming the first woman to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service. She went through the same training as the boys and was allotted the Union Territory AGMUT Cadre.
ASP Chanakyapuri
After completing her training she was given the first posting AS ACP
Chanakyapuri.
ACP New Delhi and Gallantry award
Kiran Bedi was posted as ACP New Delhi in 1978-79. Chanakyapuri is
the most upmarket area of New Delhi which houses all the important
offices including the parliament house and the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, West Delhi
While she was posted as DCP West she began the practice of participative policing and also join night patrolling by the citizens and the police together. This area had a lot of criminal activity and there weren’t enough police officers to handle this kind of crime.
DCP Traffic
In October 1981 Kiran Bedi was made DCP Traffic. At this time the whole of
New Delhi had just one DCP and that charge was given to Kiran Bedi. She
neither knew the roads of Delhi nor did she have any experience with traffic.
But this came as a challenge to her because she had to handle the traffic
arrangements for the upcoming Asian Games.
Special Traffic Police, Goa
In October 1981 Kiran Bedi was made DCP Traffic. At this time the whole of
New Delhi had just one DCP and that charge was given to Kiran Bedi. She
neither knew the roads of Delhi nor did she have any experience with traffic.
But this came as a challenge to her because she had to handle the traffic
arrangements for the upcoming Asian Games.
Deputy Director at Directorate General of Industrial Contingency, Department of Industrial Development
Kiran Bedi’s role as the Deputy Director at the DGIC was a decisive one. For her, it was a refreshingly different experience to work at a non-police department. Primarily the department dealt with monitoring of industrial relations and sending out intelligence and analysis reports.
DCP North
In 1986 Kiran Bedi became DCP of Delhi’s north district and she found drug abuse to be a rampant problem there. Most notably, she had to deal with the ‘Sansi’tribe who were traditionally involved in bootlegging. She interacted with the people of the tribe and ensured their rehabilitation in non-criminal fields. With persuasive and patient rehabilitation and by winning the confidence of the community, Delhi was finally rid of the menace while Kiran Bedi successfully brought forth the power of corrective policing.
Mizoram- DIG Range
In 1993 Kiran Bedi was transferred to Mizoram and posted as DIG range. Here again, she came across a rampant drug problem and tried to find solutions for the same. She came back to Delhi in 1993
IG Prisons Tihar
In 1993 Kiran Bedi was posted as DIG prisons in Tihar jail. She made history by completely reforming the prison making it into Tihar Ashram.
Joint Commissioner PTC ( Police Training College)
In 1999 Kiran Bedi was posted as Joint Commissioner at the Police Training College.
Police Advisor UN
Kiran Bedi became the first woman to be appointed the United Nations civilian police advisor in the department of peacekeeping operations.
DG Home Guards
As DG Home guards she worked to create a concept of Yellow Alert which meant in the event of any crisis a collective message will be sent out to all trained civil defence/ home guard volunteers to take their positions. During her tenure, thousands of civil defence volunteers were trained.
DG BPRD
Kiran Bedi’s last posting was as Director General of Police, Bureau of Police research and development. BPRD was set up in 1970 by the Government of India to modernize the police forces. The functions of the bureau include facilitating research in the field of policing.
LG Puducherry
Dr Kiran Bedi as Lt Governor Puducherry provided True Governance through the practice of five pillars, which were, Invite | Involve | Resolve | Solve | Evolve.
The first pillar – ‘Invite’
