Indian Police Service · Gujarat Cadre
An officer of the Indian Police Service, serving as Superintendent of Police, Kutch (West). A record assembled in coastal districts, in protocol, and in the border country of western Gujarat — where the work of policing is measured less by what is announced than by what does not go wrong.
Service
Indian Police Service, Gujarat cadre
Allotted to the 2018 batch.
Present appointment
Superintendent of Police, Kutch (West), Bhuj
Appointed December 2024.
Recognition
Chief of Army Staff Commendation
Independence Day 2025, for service during Operation Sindoor.
Opening Statement
Authority in a district is rarely announced. It is demonstrated — in how quickly a call is answered, how evenly a rule is applied, and how little needs to be said afterwards.
A police district is not an abstraction. It is a finite number of roads, coastlines, markets, shrines, worksites and settlements, each with its own rhythm and its own points of friction. The officer who holds charge of it inherits every one of those, along with the expectation that all of them will hold on an ordinary Tuesday and on the worst night of the year alike.
That is the frame within which this profile should be read. What follows is not a catalogue of moments. It is an account of an office — the responsibilities it carries, the disciplines it demands, and the perspective that accumulates in an officer who has held it across coastal security, constitutional protocol and a border district of the western frontier.
Introduction
Vikas Sunda is an officer of the Indian Police Service, allotted to the Gujarat cadre in 2018, and currently the Superintendent of Police for Kutch (West), headquartered at Bhuj.
His service has moved deliberately across the range of what the Indian Police Service asks of an officer in a single decade. Early sub-divisional charge in Bharuch placed him in direct contact with the everyday texture of policing: local grievance, industrial geography, festival crowds, the slow accumulation of trust that a sub-division either builds or forfeits.
From there the assignments widened. Coastal Security at Gandhinagar turned attention seaward, to a state whose shoreline is among the longest in the country and whose security posture is inseparable from its fishing fleets, its ports and its patrol craft. A tenure at Raj Bhavan as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor set the work against constitutional form — the ceremony, precedence and precision that surround a high office of state.
In December 2024 he took charge of Kutch (West): a district of salt desert and coastline, of a rebuilt city and an international frontier. In August 2025 the Chief of the Army Staff commendation was conferred on him on Independence Day, in recognition of his service during Operation Sindoor — a rare civil-police recognition from the Army, and the clearest public marker of the district's position on the national map.
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Perspective
A district reads its police by where they are, not by what they say. Presence is the cheapest instrument available to an officer and the first one to be neglected. Time spent visible — on a road, at a landing site, in a station at an unscheduled hour — is never time spent idly.
The power to compel is granted narrowly and judged strictly. Its craft lies almost entirely in restraint: knowing the smallest action that will settle a situation, and being willing to take only that. An overreaction costs more than the problem it was meant to solve.
Postings are finite; districts are not. The measure of a tenure is what still functions two years after it ends — the procedure that survived, the officer who was trained, the relationship with a neighbouring service that outlived both signatories.
Selected Highlights
Only appointments and recognitions that appear in official listings or official announcements are recorded here.
Indian Police Service, Gujarat cadre
Entry into the Service and allotment to Gujarat.
Sub-divisional police charge
First independent field responsibility.
Superintendent of Police, Coastal Security, Gandhinagar
State-level charge of the coastal security apparatus.
Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Gujarat
Listed in the state's IPS civil list of February 2023.
Superintendent of Police, Kutch (West), Bhuj
Current appointment, from December 2024.
Chief of Army Staff Commendation
Conferred on Independence Day 2025 for exemplary service during Operation Sindoor.
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