Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has on Friday passed the order of appointing officers for the high-ranking posts in the state's law enforcement agency. The order has come hours after Stalin has sworn in as the Chief Minister and after picking V Irai Anbu IAS as the new Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu, to lead the state's administration at the testing times triggered by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

MK Stalin has appointed Shankar Jiwal IPS as the new Commissioner of Police for Chennai. Jiwal will be replacing incumbent Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal to lead the Greater Chennai Police. Jiwal is a 1990-batch IPS officer and he was serving as the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) for the Armed Police, Chennai before being appointed as the Chennai Police Commissioner. 

Jiwal had served as the head of the Special Task Force (STF) for the last six years at Sathyamangalam, Erode district. He also had served as the Police Commissioner of Trichy and during his tenure in Trichy, Jiwal had introduced e-challans and an integrated traffic management system. Jiwal had served as the Inspector- General of Police (IGP) Internal Security and he played a vital role in establishing the Organized Crime Intelligence Unit and modernizing the technical surveillance capability of the State's Intelligence Units. 

According to reports, Jiwal was serving as the South Zonal Director, Narcotics Control Bureau between 2004 to 2006 and during this tenure, Jiwal was credited with making the largest seizure of heroin in the country and in 2019, Jiwal was bestowed with the Presidential Police Medal for his Distinguished Service to the Indian Police Service. He has now become Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin's choice to lead the Chennai City Police as its commissioner. 

After getting appointed as the Chennai Police Commissioner, Shankar Jiwal arrived at the Commissioner's office, Chennai and he was greeted by outgoing commissioner Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal. After a grand reception, Jiwal has assumed the office and began his duties on Saturday. Along with appointing Jiwal as the Chennai Police Commissioner, Chief Minister MK Stalin has also appointed Thamaraikannan IPS as the ADGP for Law and Order and Davidson Devasirvatham IPS as the Chief of State Intelligence.

P Thamaraikannan was serving as the ADGP (Welfare) before getting posted to the Law and Order. He had served in Chennai Police as the Additional Commissioner of Police in 2012 when bank robberies were rampant in the city. The crimes had irked the city police and a special team under the supervision of then-Police Commissioner JK Tripathy and ACP Kannan had investigated the case and under the supervision, the police had encountered and killed five suspects of the north-Indian gang in Velachery, Chennai connected to the robberies. 

As Thamaraikannan has assumed the office of ADGP Law and Order, he has replaced incumbent ADGP K Jayanth Murali. Another crucial order is appointing Davidson Devasirvatham as the Chief of State Intelligence. Devasirvatham is a 1995-batch IPS officer and he was serving as the Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore before being appointed with the task of leading the State Intelligence. 

Davidson had briefly served as the Chief of Intelligence in the rank of Inspector-General of Police in 2015 and Superintendent of Police of the 'Q' Branch CID which monitors the activities of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and Left-Wing extremists in the state. He had previously served as the Commissioner of Police, Madurai, Inspector-General of Police (Administration), Inspector-General of Police (West Zone), South Zonal Director, Narcotics Control Bureau. 

Devasirvatham IPS is a renowned name in the law enforcement agency and during his career, he was also deployed to the United Nations Peace Keeping Mission in Kosovo. He was conferred with the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service in January 2021 and as the new State Intelligence Chief, Devasirvatham has replaced Inspector-General of Police Easwaramoorthy. The State Intelligence Unit is comprised of the Special Branch, Security Branch, and 'Q' Branch police.