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{{Short description|Chief executive of the Intelligence Bureau in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}}
{{Short description|Seniormost non-elected official of India's internal intelligence agency}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2026}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2026}}

{{Infobox official post
| post = Director of Intelligence Bureau
| body = India
| flag = Flag of India.svg
| flagsize = 110px
| flagcaption = [[Flag of India]]
| insignia = Emblem of India.svg{{!}}class=skin-invert
| insigniasize = 100px
| insigniacaption = Emblem of India
| image = Shri Tapan Kumar Deka (cropped).jpg
| incumbent = [[Tapan Deka]], [[Indian Police Service|IPS]]
| incumbentsince = 1 July 2022
| residence = Classified
| appointer = [[Appointments Committee of the Cabinet]]
| reports_to =
* [[Prime Minister of India]]
* [[Union Home Minister of India|Union Home Minister]]
* [[Home Secretary (India)|Home Secretary]]
| member_of = [[Strategic Policy Group]]<br>[[National Security Council (India)|National Security Council]]
| seat = [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]], [[New Delhi]]
| termlength = Typically 2 years (extendable)
| formation = 1887
| inaugural = T. G. Sanjeevi Pillai
| salary = {{INRConvert|225000}} monthly
| succession = 25th {{small|(on the [[Indian order of precedence]])}}
| department = [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]]<br>[[Intelligence Bureau (India)|Intelligence Bureau]]
| status = Head of IB
| website = Classified
| native_name = ''खुफिया ब्यूरो के निदेशक''
}}

The '''director of the Intelligence Bureau''' ('''DIB''') is the head of the [[Intelligence Bureau (India)|Intelligence Bureau]], India's premier domestic-intelligence agency.<ref>{{cite web|title=THE INDIAN POLICE SERVICE (UNIFORM) RULES,1954|url=http://persmin.gov.in/Archive/Acts_Rules_Archive/AISRules_Archive/IPSRules/IPS(Uniform)Rules(Revised).htm#_ftnref21|publisher=Govt of India|accessdate=2 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208194152/http://persmin.gov.in/Archive/Acts_Rules_Archive/AISRules_Archive/IPSRules/IPS(Uniform)Rules(Revised).htm#_ftnref21|archive-date=8 February 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The current director of the Intelligence Bureau is [[Tapan Deka]], incumbent since 1 July 2022.

Since the bureau's inception, the office has always been held by an [[Indian Police Service]] officer. It is the highest rank attainable by any member of the service; the director of the Intelligence Bureau is therefore at any given time, the senior-most police officer in India.

==Authority==
The DIB is a member of the [[Strategic Policy Group]] and the [[National Security Council Secretariat]] (NSCS), but intelligence inputs go through the regular channels in the [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] to the NSCS. DIB reports to the Prime Minister, Home Minister and the Home Secretary of the Government of India.

Although the director of the Intelligence Bureau is entitled to wear the uniform of an officer of four-star rank, the highest such police rank in India, he is not expected to per precedent and generally does not don a uniform even on ceremonial occasions.

[[File:Car stars Police.jpg|215px]]
[[File:IPS 4 star.png|Shoulder insignia of Director of the Intelligence Bureau|80px]]

== List of directors of the Intelligence Bureau==
The following is the list of directors of the Intelligence Bureau.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bprd.nic.in/writereaddata/mainlinkFile/File1052.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-08-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816020917/http://www.bprd.nic.in/writereaddata/mainlinkFile/File1052.pdf |archivedate=2013-08-16 }}</ref>

{|+ List of Directors of the Intelligence Bureau
|- style="background:#ccc;"
! No.
! Director
! Took office
! Left office
|- style="background:#def;"
| 1
| [[T. G. Sanjeevi Pillai]]
| 12 April 1947
| 14 July 1950
|- style="background:#def;"
|2
|[[Bhola Nath Mullik|B. N. Mullik]]
|15 July 1950
|9 October 1964
|- style="background:#def;"
| 3
| [[S. P. Verma]]
| October 1964
| January 1968
|- style="background:#def;"
| 4
| [[M. L. Hooja|M. M. L. Hooja]]
| January 1968
| November 1971
|- style="background:#def;"
| 5
| [[Atma Jayaram]]
| November 1971
| August 1975
|- style="background:#def;"
| 6
| S. N. Mathur
| August 1975
| February 1980
|- style="background:#def;"
| 7
| [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
| February 1980
| August 1983
|- style="background:#def;"
| 8
| [[R. K. Kapoor]]
| August 1983
| November 1984
|- style="background:#def;"
| 9
| [[Hari Anand Barari]]
| November 1984
| March 1987
|- style="background:#def;"
| 10
| [[M. K. Narayanan]]
| April 1987
| December 1989
|- style="background:#def;"
| 11
| [[R. P. Joshi]]
| December 1989
| December 1990
|- style="background:#def;"
| 10
| [[M. K. Narayanan]]
| January 1991
| February 1992
|- style="background:#def;"
| 12
| [[V. G. Vaidya]]
| March 1992
| July 1994
|- style="background:#def;"
| 13
| [[D. C. Pathak]]
| August 1994
| August 1996
|- style="background:#def;"
| 14
| [[Abhijit Mitra]]
| August 1996
| September 1996
|- style="background:#def;"
| 15
| [[Arun Bhagat]]
| September 1996
| April 1998
|- style="background:#def;"
| 16
| [[Shyamal Datta]]
| April 1998
| May 2001
|- style="background:#def;"
| 17
| [[K. P. Singh (civil servant)|K. P. Singh]]
| May 2001
| July 2004
|- style="background:#def;"
| 18
| [[Ajit Doval]]
| July 2004
| January 2005
|- style="background:#def;"
| 19
| [[E. S. L. Narasimhan]]
| February 2005
| December 2006
|- style="background:#def;"
| 20
| [[P. C. Haldar]]
| January 2007
| December 2008
|- style="background:#def;"
| 21
| [[Rajiv Mathur]]
| January 2009
| December 2010
|- style="background:#def;"
| 22
| [[Nehchal Sandhu]]
| 2010
| 2012
|- style="background:#def;"
| 23
| [[Syed Asif Ibrahim]]
| 1 January 2013
| 31 December 2014
|- style="background:#def;"
| 24
| [[Dineshwar Sharma]]
| 1 January 2015
| 31 December 2016
|- style="background:#def;"
| 25
| [[Rajiv Jain]]
| 1 January 2017
| 26 June 2019
|- style="background:#def;"
| 26
| [[Arvind Kumar (civil servant)|Arvind Kumar]]
| 26 June 2019
| 30 June 2022
|- style="background:#def;"
| 27
| [[Tapan Deka]]
| 1 July 2022
|[[Incumbent]]
|}

==See also==
*[[Home Secretary (India)]]
*[[Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Law enforcement in India}}

[[Category:Four-star officers]]
[[Category:Intelligence Bureau (India)]]
[[Category:Police ranks of India]]

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