According to an order issued by S K Prabhakar, additional chief secretary to the home department, on Friday. Five senior IPS officers of 1990-batch have been promoted from the Additional Director General of Police to the rank of Director General of Police in Tamil Nadu.
The officers include IPS officer Shankar Jiwal presently serving as Chennai commissioner and A K Viswanathan who is the chief of Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation, Abhash Kumar who heads the civil supplies CID, T V Ravichandran who is on central deputation, and Seema Agrawal who is a member of the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Service Recruitment Board (TNUSRB). Another order placing them in new postings or upgrading current ones will soon be issued.
The state already has 10 IPS officers of the rank of DGP whose names are C Sylendra Babu, Karan Singha, Prateep V Philip, Sanjay Arora, Sunil Kumar Singh, P Kandaswamy, Mohammad Shakeel Akther, Pramod Kumar, Rajesh Das and Braj Kishore Ravi. While Prateep V Philip is retiring this month, Sanjay Arora and Braj Kishore Ravi are on deputation.
