Chennai: Shankar Jiwal, Additional Director General of police, AR, has been posted as Greater Chennai police commissioner, in the the place of Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal.
Shankar Jiwal, a 1990-batch IPS officer, was earlier heading the Special Task Force (STF) for six years, headquartered at Sathyamangalam in Erode district.
While serving as Commissioner of Police, Tiruchi, he introduced e-challans, integrated traffic management system and locked houses, monitoring through SMS there. As IGP, Internal Security, he was intrumental in establishing the Organised Crime Intelligence Unit and modernising the technical surveillance capability of the State’s intelligence units.
Meanwhile, Davidson Devasirvatham, Additional Director General of Police, Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore City has been transferred and posted as ADGP inteligence.
P Thamarai Kannan, Additional Director General of Police, Welfare, Chennal has been posted as Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, Chennal in the place of K Jayanth Murali.