The West Bengal govt promoted 17 IPS officers of the 2006-2008 batch. Those promoted are- Mrs. Sonmit Lepcha (IPS-2006) DIG, IB, Siliguri to IG North Bengal, Mehmood Akhtar (IPS-2006) Joint CP, Security, Kolkata to IG, Traffic, Ajay Kumar Thakur (2008), DIG, CID to IG, CID, Mrs. Soma Das Mitra (IPS 2006), Joint CP (Crime), Kolkata to IG, Policy, Mrs. Krishnakali Lahiri (IPS-2006), DIG (P&W) to IG, CCW, Arnab Ghosh (IPS-2006), DIG, Home Guard to IG, Costal Security, Syed Waquar Raza (IPS-2007) CP, Siliguri (DIG rank) to CP, Siliguri (IG rank), Sudhir Kumar Neelakantam (IPS-2007) DIG, STF to IG, CIF.

Meeraj Khalid (IPS-2007) due to posting to IG, Traffic, Amitava Burma (IPS-2007) DIG, Traffic to State Commandant NVF (IG, rank), Arindam Datta Chowdhury (IPS-2007)  DIG (A) to IG, Administration, Kankar Prasad Barui (IPS-2007) DIG, Presidency range to IG, Presidency Range, Joy Biswas (IPS-2007) DIG, Provisioning to IG, Railways, Shyam Singh (IPS-2007) DIG, Telecommunications to IG, Telecom, Subrata Gangopadhyay (IPS- 2007) Member Secretary, WBPRB (DIG rank) to Member Secretary, WBPRB (IGP rank), Nilanjan Biswas (IPS-2007) Joint CP (Modernisation) to Addl CP, Kolkata and Alok Rajoria (IPS-2008) DIG, IB to IG, Legal.