30 IPS officers transferred in major reshuffle

T’puram: In the first major reshuffle of IPS officers after UDF govt assumed office, 30 IPS officers were transferred with those in key posts being replaced.S Sreejith, who was serving as ADGP (HQ), was appointed ADGP (prisons). Balram Kumar Upadhyay, DG (prisons) was posted as ADGP (armed police battalions). ADGP (law and order) H Venkatesh was made ADGP (CB), while ADGP Dinendra Kashyap moved from armed police battalions to head the intel wing. ADGP (intelligence) P Vijayan was posted as ADGP (law and order) and also given full additional charge of ADGP (cyber operations).IG (traffic) Harshita Attaluri was made IG (HQ). IG S Syamsundar, who was heading intelligence, was posted as IG (CB). IG R Nishanthini was shifted from HQ to intelligence. At the DIG level, Yathish Chandra G H was transferred from Kannur to Ernakulam. Thiruvananthapuram commissioner K Karthick was posted as DIG (Thrissur), while DIG Narayanan T moved from Thrissur to Kannur. DIG (Ernakulam) Arul R B Krishna was appointed as Thiruvananthapuram city commissioner.Commissioner Merin Joseph was shifted from Kozhikode City and made the district police chief of Kozhikode Rural. Alappuzha CB SP Shoukathali A P was made Kozhikode city commissioner.KSEB’s chief vigilance officer Prasanthan Kani B K was made the district police chief of Thiruvananthapuram Rural. SP Sabu Mathew K M was transferred from Idukki to Kottayam as the district police chief, while Shaji Sugunan moved from Kerala Women’s Commission as the district police chief of Kollam Rural. SP Vishnu Pratheep T K was posted as the district police chief of Alappuzha and SP Abdul Rashi A was appointed the district police chief of Palakkad. S Deva Manohar, additional excise commissioner (enforcement), was made the district police chief of Wayanad.B Krishna Kumar was posted as SP (railways) while Kannur city commissioner SP Nidhinraj P was made the district police chief of Kasaragod. SP B V Vijaya Bharath Reddy was made Kannur city commissioner. Anuj Paliwal was appointed AIG (law and order), police headquarters, in the newly-created ex-cadre post, while Farash T was posted as AIG (Ernakulam Coastal Police).District police chief of Alappuzha Mohanachandran Nair M P was made CB SP (Kozhikode-Wayanad). Mohammad Nadeemuddin was appointed as the district police chief of Thrissur Rural, while Umesh Goyal was posted as the district police chief of Kannur Rural. Nasim A was made the district police chief of Idukki while C S Shahul Hameed was posted as SP (Central Unit-I) CB in Thiruvananthapuram.