Shesh Paul Vaid

Vaid was born and raised in the Mahanpur town of Kathua district in the Jammu Division of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1959 into a Dogra family.

Vaid graduated in Veterinary Science (B.V.Sc) from Madras Veterinary College in the Vepery neighbourhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu and then from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

He qualified for the Civil Services and was allotted the Indian Police Service (IPS) on 25 August 1986 with Jammu and Kashmir cadre.

From 1988 to 1990, he was the Additional Superintendent of Police in Badgam and was promoted as Superintendent in the same district in 1990, the year when he faced maximum militant attacks.

He also topped the International Commanders' programme at Police staff College at UK.

In 1990, while Superintendent in Badgam, Vaid was accompanying his wife along with their month-old daughter from Gulmarg to Badgam.

Militants attacked the convoy killing two army men in the vehicle in front of his car.

The apprehended militants later admitted that the attack was meant to assassinate him.

While Deputy Inspector General of Police, Baramulla range in the Kashmir Valley, Vaid suffered a severe hand injury in March 1999 when 25 militants ambushed his car and two escort gypsies on the national highway, on his way to Baramulla after a review meeting at Srinagar where he was officiating as Inspector General.

The militants, aware that his car was bullet-proof, hurled hand-grenades and used powerful universal machine guns which pierce through bullet-proof glass, instead of the commonly used AK-47s.

In the course of his career, he has served as Deputy Inspector General of Police of Jammu, as Inspector General (Crime), IGP (Home Guards and Civil Defence), as Inspector General Modernisation Police Headquarters, as Inspector General of Police of Jammu, as IGP Crime and Railways (2008) and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Traffic Jammu & Kashmir.

In 2009, he was sent on deputation to Bureau of Police Research and Development(BPR&D) in New Delhi where he was initially posted as Director of Special Policing, then as Director of Training and in the last few months of his deputation as the Director of Administration.

In February 2010, Dr. S P Vaid was also appointed as the new Secretary of Central Indian Police Service Association (CIPSA) as an additional central charge besides his assignment in Bureau of Police Research & Development.

in June 2011, Dr Vaid was promoted to the senior Indian police rank of Additional Director General of Police.

Consequently, he returned to his parent cadre in September 2011and in November 2011, the Jammu and Kashmir State Cabinet ordered the posting of Vaid as Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Headquarters (PHQ).

Shesh Paul Vaid, also known as S. P. Vaid, is an Indian police officer and former Director General of Police (DGP) of Jammu & Kashmir from 31 December 2016 till 6 September 2018.

On 3 March 2016, Vaid was promoted to the grade of Director General (DG), and was subsequently appointed as Director General of Police (Prisons).

On 8 September 2016, Vaid was transferred and posted as Special DG (Coordination and Law & Order).

The post of Special D..G Coordination held by S.K Mishra had been re-designated as Special DG (Coordination and Law & Order) till held by the officer.

On 28 December 2016, The State Cabinet confirmed the name of S.P. Vaid as new Director General of Police (DGP) of Jammu and Kashmir Police.

The decision was taken in the State Cabinet meeting headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu.

On 31 December 2016, Vaid took over the charge of Director General of Police from K. Rajendra Kumar.

Vaid has played a role in many notable events in the state and made attempts to facilitate the improvement of law and order and police-community relations.