THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Government, in a late evening move, reshuffled IPS officials on Wednesday. Nineteen officers were reallocated posts this time.
Former Kollam Commissioner P Prakash has been appointed as the principal of Police Training College. Rajpal Meena will take Thomas Jolly Cheriyan’s post as the SP of Special Branch (Internal Security) and the latter was shifted to Crime Branch in Thiruvananthapuram. Rahul R Nair, who was the Malabar Special Police commandant, has been shifted as AIG in police headquarters. His position will be taken up by P A Valsalan, who was the Vigilance SP in Kozhikode.
K K Balachandran has been moved to Crime Branch, Thiruvananthapuram. Kaliraj Maheshkumar is the SP of headquarters, while Jayanath J is in charge of computer cell. Former Thiruvananthapuram Range SP Gopakumar is the SP for Special Branch. Mohammed Shabeer is the SP of NRI Cell, P Ashok Kumar is the AIG Public Grievance in headquarters and G Somasekharan the new SP of Special cell. R Premkumar has been posted as Kochi City crime and administration deputy commissioner. Thampi S Durgadutt is the SP in charge of Padmanabha Swamy Temple security, SP E K Sabu is in Vigilance, K Rajendran is Crime Branch Headquarters SP.
K Vijayan has been shifted to CBCID Palakkad, K V Joseph as Assistant Director of Kerala Police Academy (KEPA) and T Narayanan to VACB Central Range. Jacob Job is the SP of CBCID, V Gopal Krishnan has been appointed as the Additional AIG of Police Headquarters, K G Simon is the new SP of Crime Branch in Kottayam and Pushkaran N K has been moved to Special Branch in Thrissur.