SP Vaid appointed as new Director General of Police for Jammu and Kashmir
He will succeed K Rajendra Kumar.
His three-year term is ending this month.
The decision to appoint Vaid as DGP was taken in a cabinet meeting in Jammu on Wednesday.
"The State cabinet has approved the appointment of Vaid as new DGP," Cabinet spokesman Naeem Akther said
Vaid is a 1986-batch IPS officer of J&K cadre who is presently working as Special DGP (Law and Order).
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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