Director of the Intelligence Bureau

The director of the Intelligence Bureau (DIB) is the chief executive of the Intelligence Bureau, India's premier domestic-intelligence agency.^[1] The DIB is the senior-most Indian Police Service officer of the Intelligence Bureau. The current director of the Intelligence Bureau is Tapan Deka, who is serving since 1 July 2022^[2][3] The director of the Intelligence Bureau (DIB) is a four-star ranked Indian Police Service (IPS) in India. He is the senior most police officer in the country.

Director of the Intelligence Bureau
Insignia of Director of the Intelligence Bureau
Incumbent Tapan Deka since 1 July 2022
Intelligence Bureau
Type	Chief Executive
Abbreviation	DIB
Member of	Strategic Policy Group Joint Intelligence Committee
Reports to	Minister of Home Affairs
Seat	North Block, New Delhi
Nominator	Ministry of Home Affairs
Appointer	Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
Term length	2-3 years
Formation	1887
First holder	T. G. Sanjeevi Pillai
Deputy	Special Director, Intelligence Bureau
Salary	Pay level 17

Authority

The DIB is a member of the Strategic Policy Group and the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), but intelligence inputs go through the regular channels in the Ministry of Home Affairs to the JIC. DIB reports to the Union home minister in the Union Ministry of Home affairs, GoI.

Notwithstanding anything mentioned above, the director of the Intelligence Bureau is not expected to wear the uniform of the IPS officer even on ceremonial occasions.

DIB Tapan Deka, IPS arriving at the IPS officers' valedictory parade of 76RR on 24th July 2025 at SVP NPA, Hyderabad. The car bears 4 stars signifying that Director of Intelligence Bureau is the highest post in the IPS

DIB Tapan Deka, IPS at IPS officers' valedictory parade of 76RR on 24th July 2025 atop inspection jeep bearing 4 stars

List of directors of the Intelligence Bureau

The following is the list of directors of the Intelligence Bureau.^[4]

No.	Director	Took office	Left office
1	T. G. Sanjeevi Pillai	12 April 1947	14 July 1950
2	B. N. Mullik	15 July 1950	9 October 1964
3	S. P. Verma	October 1964	January 1968
4	M. M. L. Hooja	January 1968	November 1971
5	Atma Jayaram	November 1971	August 1975
6	S. N. Mathur	August 1975	February 1980
7	T. V. Rajeswar	February 1980	August 1983
8	R. K. Kapoor	August 1983	November 1984
9	Hari Anand Barari	November 1984	March 1987
10	M. K. Narayanan	April 1987	December 1989
11	R. P. Joshi	December 1989	December 1990
(10)	M. K. Narayanan	January 1991	February 1992
12	V. G. Vaidya	March 1992	July 1994
13	D. C. Pathak	August 1994	August 1996
14	Abhijit Mitra	August 1996	September 1996
15	Arun Bhagat	September 1996	April 1998
16	Shyamal Datta	April 1998	May 2001
17	K. P. Singh	May 2001	July 2004
18	Ajit Doval	July 2004	January 2005
19	E. S. L. Narasimhan	February 2005	December 2006
20	P. C. Haldar	January 2007	December 2008
21	Rajiv Mathur	January 2009	December 2010
22	Nehchal Sandhu	2010	2012
23	Syed Asif Ibrahim	1 January 2013	31 December 2014
24	Dineshwar Sharma	1 January 2015	31 December 2016
25	Rajiv Jain	1 January 2017	26 June 2019
26	Arvind Kumar	26 June 2019	30 June 2022
27	Tapan Deka	1 July 2022	Incumbent