Amitesh Kumar

A graduate in Economics who went on to postgraduate study in law and in cyber law, Amitesh Kumar entered the Indian Police Service through the Union Public Service Commission examination of 1995 and was allotted the Maharashtra cadre. His first field years were spent in Solapur district, where he was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Police in 1997.

Early district service is where an officer learns the mechanics of the job that no later rank replaces: registration and investigation, the handling of law and order on the ground, and the daily management of a police station's relationship with the people it serves.

Over three decades the record moves across the full range of Maharashtra policing: district superintendence in Solapur and Aurangabad (Rural); metropolitan divisional charge as Deputy Commissioner of Police in Nagpur and Mumbai; specialist work as Additional Commissioner of Police with the Anti-Terrorism Squad; range supervision as Special Inspector General of Police, Aurangabad Range; traffic command in Mumbai; and intelligence work in the State Intelligence Department.

Three commissionerates have been under his charge — Amravati, Nagpur City and, since 2024, Pune City.

A city commissioner carries a jurisdiction, not a portfolio. Law and order, crime prevention and detection, traffic, protective security, the safety of women and children, narcotics, cybercrime and economic offences all sit inside the same command — alongside the welfare, deployment and discipline of the force itself.

The public statements and published data from his Nagpur and Pune tenures show a consistent framing of that job: identify the small number of repeat offenders who generate disproportionate harm, act against them under the law, keep the police visible, and be able to show the reasoning behind both.