BORN                      :

Parents                   :

Sisters                     :

1.  Shashi (settled in Canada)
   

2.  Kiran    (myself)
   

3. Reeta a Tennis champion and a well known author of books on Behavioural Therapy.
   

4. Anu (a Lawn & National Tennis champion three times and Wimbeldon player)

Married – One Daughter, Saina Bedi   

 

Husband – Shri Brij Bedi, a Textile Engineer, player and a social activist working children’s drug addicts. in Amritsar.  

Children    :    One daughter, Saina, married to Ruzbeh Barucha                                           Blessed with a daughter Mehar

 

• School – Sacred Heart School , Amritsar

• Graduation English (Hons.) Government College for Women, Amritsar.

• Masters in Political Science from Punjab University, Chandigarh (Topped   the University).

• Law Degree – Delhi University, New Delhi

• Ph.D – I.I.T., Delhi (Department of Social Sciences) on `Drug Abuse and Domestic Violence'.

• Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship to write about the work done at Tihar Jail during my tenure as IG (Prisons)

• Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Guru Nanak Dev University.

• Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the prestigious City University of New York's (CUNY) School of Law in recognition of her "humanitarian approach to prison reforms and policing.

• Been a National Junior Tennis Champion
  
• Been a National Senior Tennis Champion 
  
• Been an Asian Tennis Champion.  Represented India abroad.  

• Received Police Medal for Gallantry by the President of India.

• Received Asia – Region Award for work done in the field of Drug Abuse Prevention by International Organization of Good Templars (IOGT), a Norway based organisation. 

• Awarded the RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD for GOVERNMENT SERVICE, 1994, by the RAMON MAGSAYSAY FOUNDATION, PHILIPPINES. (This is first such award to a Police Officer in Asia.  It is perhaps the first time a Police Officer in the world is awarded with a ‘PEACE’ Award).  

• Received JOSEPH BEUYS FOUNDATION AWARD (Swiss Award) for Holistic and Innovative Management.  

• Received International Award from ASSOCIATIONS OF CHRISTIAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES : INTERNATIONAL ECUMENICAL FORUM (ACCU-IEF) for promotion of quality of life through the campaign against Alcohol, Drugs, AIDS and Tobacco in  September 1998.

• Conferred the PRIDE OF INDIA AWARD 1999 by American Federation of Muslims from India (AFMI) of the US & Canada for commitment towards Human Welfare, Women's rights, Outstanding Services and for upholding secular values in October 1999. 

• Awarded the first ever IIT - Delhi Alumni Association  1999 -2000 Award for outstanding contribution to National Development.

• Awarded by the WESTERN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY USA, THE 2001 Morrison, Tom Gitchoff Award for actions that have significantly improved the quality of justice in India on February 24, 2001

• Awarded "Woman of the Year" Award 2002 by the Blue Drop Group Management, Cultural and Artistic Association, Italy.

• Power of the Deducated Professional Award , 2003, by the University of South Florida ( USF) and the Federation of Indian Americans ( FIA )

• Kiran Bedi honoured with UN medal 2004

• Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice, 2005

• FICCI Award , 2005

• Transformative Leadership in the Indian Police Service 2006

• Suryadatta National Award 2007

• Amity Woman Achiever for Social Justice 2007

• Public Service Excellence Award 2007

• Zee Astitva Award 2007

• Baba Farid Award 2007

• The Indian society of Criminology 2008

• Pride Of Punjab  April 2008

• Lifetime Achievement Awards ( Bank of Baroda ) 2008

• Annemaire-Maddison prize 2008

• Women Excellences Awards 2009 ( Aaaj Tak )

• To represent India in American, European and Asian International Forums on the subject of Drug Abuse, Drug Trafficking Prevention, and Prison Reforms.  

• To address International Police Chiefs Conference (1992), USA. 

• To attend National Prayer Breakfast with the President of USA in 1995. 

• To visit British Prisons on the invitation of British Foreign Office (1995). 

• To attend United Nations World Social Summit in Denmark (1995). 

• To attend “United Nations Women” Conference at BEIJING (1995). 

• To attend United Nations Conference on Drug Abuse at New York (1998).

• Invited by the Mauritius Government to train Law Enforcement Agencies on Prevention of Domestic Violence (1998).

• Attended SAARC Workshop on Anti Narcotics, Planning & Development at Islamabad, Pakistan (1998). 

• Invited to address Prison Governors Association, Annual Conference at Buxton, U.K. March 2000.

• Addressed the IV session of Senior Criminal Justice executive program at Bangkok in November 2000 organised by United States Govt. Department of Justice.

• Invited to OSLO, Norway as a Panelist for a Panel Discussion with Prof. Amartya Sen on the  subject "Welfare Policing", March 2002.

• PARVASI AWARDS NIGHT 13 April, 2008

• Parvasi Media Group 14th November 2008

• DPS Sharjah as the Chief Guest 2008

• 9th informal ASEM Seminar on Human Rights , Strasbourg, France 2009

Books :

There is a Biography on my Life, in a book form called ‘I  Dare!’ published by UBS Publishers.  Its also translated into Hindi, Malyalam, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada and Punjabi.

Authored a book called ‘It’s Always Possible’ on the transformation of one of the largest prison in the world.  It is accompanied by with a CD ROM with the same title produced by India Vision Foundation.

Another Biography on my life entitled "The Kindly Baton" authored by a psychologist and a research scholar, Mrs. Meenakshi Saxena has been published by Books India International.  

Joined the Indian Police Service in 1972 (the first woman officer in India to do so). Undertook various assignments, notable among them being following:

1.      District Police, Delhi Traffic Police during  the Ninth Asian Games in Delhi.       

2.      Special Traffic Police in Goa during Commonwealth Heads of  Government Meet.

3.      Deputy director Narcotics, Control Bureau

4.      Deputy inspector general (range) Mizoram

5.      Inspector general of prisons, Tihar Jail, New Delhi

6.      Special secretary to the lieutenant governor of Delhi

7.      Joint commissioner, Delhi Police

8.      Inspector general of Police, Chandigarh

9.      Joint commissioner of police (training), Delhi Police.

10.   Special commissioner of police (training), Delhi Police.

11.   Civilian police adviser to the secretary-general, UN, in the Department of  Peace-keeping  

         Operations.

12.  Director Journal of home guard and Civil Defense.

13.  Director Journal Bureau and Police Research and Development. 

Sought voluntary retirement from service wef from December, 26th 2007. (Over 18 months prior to completion of service)

COMMUNITY WORK 

Founded two organizations:

a)    NAVJYOTI  Regd. (1987) 

b)   INDIA VISION FOUNDATION  Regd. (1994)  

c) Self Policing  

D) Safer India

E) India Police

Cost free residential therapeutic community based treatment and interventions for alcohol and drug dependents (treated  by now, over 12,000 drug dependents).  

• Creches, Primary & Gali Schools for slum children  
  

• Vocational and literacy centres for women and adolescents
  

• Creche training programmes for women in the prison  

Navjyoti was awarded the U N based Serge Sotiroff Memorial Award 1999 on International nominations for its  pioneering work in the field of Drug Abuse prevention and treatment.  This award was received on 26^th June, 1999, the International Day against Drug Abuse.

Navjyoti has also received the Delhi Government sponsored State Award for its work in the field of education and rehabilitation of destitute children.   

• Schooling for Prisoners Children  

•  Gali schools for slum children

• Rural projects for village community  

• Disability Projects in backward areas