P V Rajgopal

P V Rajgopal qualified for the Indian Police Service (IPS) examination in his very first attempt in 1965. He

was allotted to Madhya Pradesh (MP) Cadre. After serving in various districts for 10 years, he

went on deputation to the Government of India and served in the Intelligence organizations of the Cabinet

Secretariat. On return to his parent Cadre after 14 years, he was put in charge of important assignments

in MP.

He was among the 15 officers of his batch of over 60 officers, who were empaneled in the Central

Government as DG Police for posting to the Central Police Organization's. He was posted as head of the

National Police Academy (NPA) in Hyderabad. During his three years stint in the NPA, he brought about a

paradigm shift in the training and treatment of IPS Officer Trainees apart from developing the Academy

of par with world class police Institutions.

Of the three books he authored, two of them, “I Was Nehru’s Shadow” and “The British, the Bandits

and the Bordermen” figured on the bestsellers’ lists three times each. He considers this the acme of his

achievements in his life as he was bunched along with world famous authors and Nobel Laureates in the

bestsellers lists as many as six times.