Shankar Jiwal is Chennai Police Commissioner
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Hours after thereturned to power, the State Government on Friday, March 7, 2021, issued transfer orders and postings of some senior IPS officers. Shankar Jiwal, a 1990-batch IPS officer, was posted as the new Chennai Police Commissioner replacing Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal. Mr. Jiwal, presently ADGP, Armed Police, Chennai, was earlier heading the Special Task Force (STF) for the last 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.
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