Nagpur: The 2015 batch IPS officer, Noorul Hassan, a former scientific officer at Department of Atomic Energy’s Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), left the prestigious job and also ignored opportunities in corporate world so he could provide justice to the commoners. Just like his name, which means ‘light of the God’, he wants to fight the darkness of crime and illegal activities and spread illumination of fairness.
Hassan, in his early 30s, is currently posted as Zonal DCP in west Nagpur. He was also electrical project engineer at Siemens Limited after completing his B Tech from Aligarh Muslim University in 2009. Son of a government clerk, Hassan’s wife is a MD and so are his younger brother and his wife.
Though a young turk in the force, Hassan has already showed shrewd side of policing when he cycled to reach MIDC police station in civil attire on Sunday for a surprise visit.
Hassan, probably first IPS from his native district of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, said his early days in an interior village were chequered with struggle. It was father’s job that brought the family to Bareilly.
“Almighty chooses people to do a certain job and it was He for whom I am here,” said Hassan during brief meeting with the media at Rana Pratap Nagar police station on Monday after holding a Janata (public) meeting.
Hassan said his selection in the UPSC in the very first attempt was a surprise for him too as he could barely invest one-third of the time that other aspirants had devoted to crack the examination. “My job at BARC was demanding and exhausting and had been a regular engagement from 8am to 5pm. After rest and refreshment, I would be left with barely six hours for studies. In reality, it would be only five. I studied in the bus during travelling,” he said.
“If it interests you then anything is possible,” said Hassan. He also sounded a firm believer of in dictum of success being 99% hard work and 1% luck.
After joining as Assistant SP in Beed in 2017, he was shifted as Addl SP Nanded and then to Yavatmal before getting transferred to Nagpur which will probably be his first acid test under a no non-sense CP Amitesh Kumar who is known to be a hard taskmaster. “We are following CP’s diktat against illegal activities like consuming liquor in the open and at the dabhas (roadside) eateries,” he said.
“I have already given my cell phone to the people to call me. I am accessible for them. As of now, I get calls on my cell phone from 8 am to 11 pm,” said Hassan.