Investigation
Seven years on central deputation to the CBI, working the kind of cases where the quality of the paperwork decides the outcome.
Indian Police Service · Gujarat Cadre
Narasimha N. Komar
Thirty years in the Indian Police Service — central investigation with the CBI, state-level police administration, and command of a metropolitan city force.
Commissioner of Police
Vadodara City · Gujarat Police
Introduction
A career built on investigation, administration and the patient work of making a city feel safe.
Narasimha N. Komar joined the Indian Police Service in September 1996 and was allotted to the Gujarat cadre, where he has spent almost the whole of a thirty-year career. He is a direct recruit through the Union Public Service Commission examination, with an engineering background carried into a profession that has become steadily more technical.
Roughly seven of those years were spent on deputation to the Central Bureau of Investigation with the Government of India — a stretch of casework that shaped a method still visible in how he talks about policing today: evidence first, process respected, and the file built to survive a courtroom.
He returned to Gujarat to serve at the state police headquarters in Gandhinagar, latterly as Additional Director General of Police, and chaired the task force behind VISWAS, the state-wide video surveillance programme. In April 2024 he took charge as Commissioner of Police, Vadodara City.
Areas of work
Four strands run through the record.
Not a list of titles, but the concerns that recur across postings — from a CBI case file in Delhi to a command-and-control room in Gandhinagar to a marathon route in Vadodara.
Technology in policing
Chair of the VISWAS task force: cameras, command centres, body-worn devices and drones brought into one operating picture across Gujarat.
Urban law and order
Command of a metropolitan force in a city of festivals, processions, industry and a fast-growing student population.
Public participation
Road safety, drug awareness and community campaigns run as police work rather than as an afterthought to it.
On Vadodara
Vadodara is the most significant city in central Gujarat and is emerging as a prominent metropolitan city. It is known as a culturally rich city.”
Selected highlights
Two pieces of work worth knowing about.
One built quietly over years across an entire state. The other took sixty seconds and a hundred thousand people.
01 — State-wide
The surveillance backbone of a state, assembled piece by piece.
VISWAS — Video Integration and State Wide Advanced Security — put more than seven thousand cameras across nearly twelve hundred junctions in its first phase, then extended into fifty-plus municipalities and eighty inter-state entry and exit points.
Thirty-four district command centres, ten thousand body-worn cameras and nineteen drone systems feed the same picture. As chair of the task force, Narasimha Komar presented the programme as a national best practice at the Department of Administrative Reforms conference.
1,08,000
Participants · one pledge · sixty seconds
World Book of Records, UK Navlakhi Ground, Vadodara
02 — Vadodara
A city took one pledge together, and it entered the record books.
At the Vadodara Marathon on Navlakhi Ground, 1,08,000 runners, students, officials and invitees took the ‘Resolve for Drug Free India’ oath together inside a single minute.
World Book of Records, UK certified it as the largest mass oath-taking campaign of its kind, crediting the planning and coordination behind it to Vadodara City Police under his leadership.
Where to go next
The rest of the record.
Each section stands on its own. Start wherever the question you came with lives.
01
About
Who he is, where the career began, and the way of working that runs underneath it.
02
Journey
Thirty years told as chapters — 1996 to the present, with the dates that are on the record.
03
Work
What the job actually involves: the commissionerate, the technology brief, the daily calculus of law and order.
04
Impact
Two case studies, the recognitions attached to them, and what each one changed.
05
Gallery
Photographs from ceremonies, briefings, launches and courtesy calls.
Enquiries
For invitations, media requests
and speaking enquiries.
Correspondence is handled by Mr. Digant Sharma.