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Sanjay Barve; is an Indian Police Service Officer of 1987 batch belonging to the Maharashtra cadre. He hails from Konkan region in Maharashtra. He took over as the Police Commissioner of Mumbai on 28th February 2018 from Subodh Kumar Jaiswal; IPS. Mr. BArve was earlier Director General of the Bureau of Anti-corruption of Maharashtra. Sanjay Barve was part of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) which investigated Abdul Karim Telgi’s multi-crore fake stamp paper scam, that saw many senior police officers and politicians going behind bars. Incidentally, his predecessor Subodh Jaiswal also was part of the same SIT. He exhibited extraordinary valour and dynamism maintaining communal harmony during the handling of Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar communal riots in which 11 dalits were killed in police firing, on July 11, 1997, after Dr Ambedkar’s statue at Ramabhai Ambedkar colony in Ghatkopar (east)  was disfigured. Mr. Barve was awarded President's Police Medal in year 2006 for his commendable achievements.

Barve has had a stint in the naxal-infested Gadchiroli district as also he has been deputy commissioner of police in various zones in Mumbai including in the elite Economic Offences Wing.

He was Police Commissioner in Solapur and is accredited with the development of Mumbai Police Gymkhana at Marine Drive.

Mr. Barve successfully face the allegation of having facilitated a flat for his father in the tainted Adarsh Housing Society at Cuffe Parade in Mumbai in return for permission granted by him to shorten the width of Captain Prakash Pethe Marg that was an access to the BEST depot. His spouse Mrs. Sharmila Barve too faced the enquiry of the CBI and came clean out of it.