The central government has granted five new IPS officers to Andhra Pradesh. The Andhra Pradesh government has confirmed that five IPS officers of the 2018 batch of civil services have been assigned to the state. Among five officials, two from AP one from Bihar, one from Delhi and the other is from Rajasthan severally. The five IPS assigned to the Andhra Pradesh cadre are as follows.
KV Maheshwar Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Komi Pratap Siva Kishore, Andhra Pradesh Shafqat Amna, Bihar Sunil Sheeran, Delhi Rahul Meena, Rajasthan After the partition of Andhra Pradesh state in 2014, the center has allotted IAS and IPS officers to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. However, with some of them opting for central services, there is a shortage of civil servants in the state. The state government has written to the Union Home Ministry to allocate IAS and IPS officers to the state. With this, the Center has issued orders for the latest allocation of IPS officers.