Inspector general of police (Nepal)
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{short description|Highest police rank in Nepal}}
{{Infobox official post
| post = Inspector general of Nepal police
| body =
| native_name = प्रहरी महानिरीक्षक
| flag = IGP Nepal.webp
| flagsize =
| flagcaption =
| insignia =
| insigniasize =
| insigniacaption = IGP Pip
| image =
| incumbent = Deepak Thapa
| incumbentsince = 18 March 2025
| residence = IGP Residence, Naxal, Kathmandu
| department =
| member_of =
| reports_to = Home Ministry of Nepal
| seat = Nepal Police Headquarters, Naxal, Kathmandu, Nepal
| appointer = Home secretary (subject to the decision of the prime minister and the council of ministers of Nepal)
| appointment =
| termlength = 4 years
| termlength_qualified = Extendable
| constituting_instrument = Police Act 2012
| precursor =
| formation = 1951
| first = Toran Shumsher JBR
| salary =
| deputy = Additional Inspector General of Nepal Police (AIGP)
| website = {{url|http://www.nepalpolice.gov.np}}
}}
The Inspector general of police (IGP) is the senior-most and highest ranked police officer of Nepal and the head of the Nepalese Police Force, who oversees all police activities throughout the country and reports directly to the Ministry of Home Affairs and is appointed by the government of Nepal for a tenure of four years, although two IGPs have served for six years.{{cite web |title=About IGP |url=https://nepalpolice.gov.np/index.php/about-us/polie-ranks |accessdate=10 October 2017 |publisher=Nepal Police}}{{cite web |title=Exclusion illusions |url=http://archives.myrepublica.com/2012/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=40957 |accessdate=10 October 2017 |publisher=República}}
List of Nepal's IGPs
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| Order{{cite web | url=http://www.nepalpolice.gov.np/police-history/ex-chief-of-police.html | title=Police History - Ex-Chief of Police |publisher=Nepal Police| accessdate=2013-04-10}}{{cite web|title=History|url=https://www.nepalpolice.gov.np/index.php/about-us/history?showall=&start=1|publisher=Nepal Police|accessdate=10 October 2017}}
! Name ! Time in office |
|---|
| 1st
| align="center" | April 1950 |
| 2nd
| align="center" | April 1950 – December 1953 |
| 3rd
| align="center" | December 1953 – August 1955 |
| 4th
| Gopal Shumsher J.B.R. | align="center" | August 1955 – July 1956 |
| 5th
| Purna Singh Khawas | align="center" | July 1956 – August 1957 |
| 6th
| Dhundi Raj Sharma | align="center" | August 1957 – December 1961 |
| 7th
| align="center" | December 1961 – July 1966 |
| 8th
| align="center" | August 1966 – June 1972 |
| 9th
| align="center" | July 1972 – July 1978 |
| 10th
| align="center" | July 1978 – June 1982 |
| 11th
| align="center" | June 1982 – June 1986 |
| 12th
| align="center" | June 1986 – June 1990 |
| 13th
| align="center" | June 1990 – February 1992 |
| 14th
| align="center" | February 1992 – January 1996 |
| 15th
| align="center" | March 1996 – December 1996 |
| 16th
| align="center" | February 1996 – March 1996 |
| |
| align="center" | December 1996 – September 1999 |
| 17th
| align="center" | September 1999 – December 2002 |
| 18th
| align="center" | December 2002 – September 2006 |
| 19th
| align="center" | September 2006 – September 2008 |
| 20th
| align="center" | September 2008 – February 2009 |
| 21st
| align="center" | February 2009 – May 2011 |
| 22nd
| align="center" | June 2011 – September 2012 |
| 23rd
| align="center" | September 2012 – November 2013 |
| 24th
| align="center" | November 2013 – February 2017 |
| 25th
| align="center" | 10 April 2017 – 11 April 2018 |
| 26th | align="center" | 11 April 2018 – 11 February 2020 |
| 27th | align="center" | 12 February 2020 – 7 July 2020 |
| 28th | align="center" | 9 July 2020 – 1 May 2022 |
| 29th | align="center" | 1 May 2022 – 24 March 2023 |
| 30th | align="center" | 24 March 2023 – 18 March 2025 |
| 31st | align="center" | 18 March 2025 – present |