The Inspector General of the Armed Police Force (IG of APF) is the senior-most and highest-ranked officer and the head of the Armed Police Force, who oversees all police activities throughout the country and reports directly to the Ministry of Home Affairs and is appointed by the government of Nepal for a tenure of four years.
List of Nepal's IGs
Order Name Time in office 1st Krishna Mohan Shrestha 1 February 2001 – 26 January 2003 2nd Sahabir Thapa 27 January 2003 – 11 May 2006 3rd Basudev Oli 12 May 2006 – 15 April 2009 4th Sanat Kumar Basnet 15 April 2009 – 5 June 2011 5th Kishor Kumar Lama 17 July 2011 – 30 July 2011 6th Shailendra Kumar Shrestha 31 July 2011 – 10 April 2012 7th Kosh Raj Onta 11 April 2012 – 18 December 2015 8th Durja Kumar Rai 18 December 2015 – 23 February 2017 9th Singha Bahadur Shrestha 24 February 2017 – 11 April 2018 10th Shailendra Khanal 12 April 2018 – 11 April 2022 11th Pushpa Ram K.C.12 April 2022 – 19 May 2022 12th Raju Aryal 20 May 2022 – 1 May 2026 13th Narayan Datta Paudel 2 May 2026 – incumbent
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