Thiruvananthapuram: Anil Kant, 1988 Batch IPS officer, will take over as the head of the state police next, at vacancies created by retirement Loknath Behera.
Kant, Indigenous Delhi, served as a road safety commissioner before his post as the Head of the National Police.
In addition to serving in the temporary IB in central deputation, Anil Kant also serves as Dig and IG (intelligence) and IG (crime).
After being promoted as ADGP, he posted as chairman and director of Kerala Police Housing and Corporation, ADGP (Bureau of Crime Records), Director General of Fire and Rescue Services and Adgp (Armed Police Battalion).
He also served as Transportation Commissioner, Director of Precautions and Anti-Corruption Bureau and Prison Director and Correctional Services.
Master’s degree holders in political science, Anil Kant has been respected with the presidential police medal for meritorious and respectable services.
He will retire from IPS on January 31 next year, but must be seen if the government will offer ownership ownership.
Being the first appointment of a police chief in the state after the Supreme Court modified his assessment in Prakash Singh versus the Indian case unity in 2018, he must be seen whether the state government will choose to offer a two-year period for the new police chief by offering service extension until he completes Two years, or whether the police chief must be careful when he will pour off the service.
He was chosen by the government from the list of three officers elected by the UNI Public Service Commission, the other two as Director of Chief of Secrifier K Sudesh Kumar and B Sandhya.
While Sudesh Kumar is the Director of Wewa and the Anti-Corruption Bureau, B Sandhya is ADGP (training).
While Senior Arun Kumar Sinha officials who are currently SPG’s director said that he did not want to go back to the state, the next officer in the queue of Tomin J Thackankary was issued from his controversial service list.
Anil Kant to take over as New Police Chief Kerala
