Dattatray "Datta" Padsalgikar (born 26 August 1958) is a retired Indian IPS officer of Maharashtra Cadre, who was, on 30 June 2018, named as the new Director General of Police of Maharashtra and succeeded Satish Mathur.

An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1982 batch, Padsalgikar was on deputation to the central government in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for a few years until he was named as the new Mumbai police commissioner in 30 January 2016 succeeding Ahmad Javed.

He served as CP till 29 June 2018, when he was appointed as Maha DGP.

[2] Padsalgikar would be the first Maharashtrian police chief of Mumbai after almost a decade, after D N Jadhav who held the office between March 2007 and February 2008.

[4] Padsalgikar has said that fighting terror and ISIS will be one of his top priorities.