Somesh Goyal is an IPS officer of the 1984 batch allocated to Himachal Pradesh. He is a former Director General of Police of HP. He has also served in several central armed police forces in internal security, anti terrorism and border guarding roles. Somesh Goyal is an alumnus of National Defence College. He writes on matters of internal security, terrorism, India's strategic interests, border guarding, police and prison reforms and India's neighbourhood.