Background
Bedi, Kiran was born on June 9, 1949 in Amristar, Punjab, India. Daughter of Prakash and Prem Peshawaria.
Indian police officer social worker
Bedi, Kiran was born on June 9, 1949 in Amristar, Punjab, India. Daughter of Prakash and Prem Peshawaria.
Graduate Secondary School, Sacred Heart Convent School, Amristar. Graduate in English, Government College for Women, 1968. Master in Political Science, Punjab University, Chandigarh, 1970.
Graduate, National Police Academy, 1972. Graduate with a law degree, Delhi University, 1988. Doctor of Philosophy Drug Abuse and Domestic Violence, Department of Social Sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1993.
Doctor in Public Administration (honorary), Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, 2003. Doctor of Laws (honorary), City University of New York's (City University of New York) School of Law, 2005.
Professional women's tennis player, 1966—1978. Lecturer Political Science, Khalsa College for Women, Amritsar, 1970—1972. Sub-divisional police officer Indian Police Service, Chanakyapuri, 1972—1975.
District police officer West District of Delhi, Indian Police Service, 1975—1981. Deputy commissioner of Police (Traffic) Indian Police Service, 1981—1983. District police officer Railway Protection Force, 1984.
Strike mediator Department of Industrial Development, 1985—1986. District police officer North District, Indian Police Service, 1986—1988. Deputy director Narcotics Control Bureau, Indian Police Service, New Delhi, 1988—1990.
Deputy inspector general of Police Indian Police Service, 1990—1993, inspector general of prisons Tihar, 1993—1995. Special secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, 1995—1999. Inspector general of police Indian Police Service, Chandigarh, 1999, joint commissioner of police (Training), 1999—2001, joint commissioner of police (intelligence), 2001—2003.
Advisory United Nations Civilian Police, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, 2003—2005. Director general Home Guards and Civil Defense, Indian Police Service, since 2005. Director Bureau Police Research and Development, since 2006.
Speaker in field.
Founder Navajyoti (drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation), 1986, India Vision Foundation (field of prison reforms, crime prevention, education, rural development), 1994.
Married Brij Bedi; 1 child Saina Bharucha.