4 Assistant commissioners in the police department have been given additional charges.
In view of the by-election in the R.K Nagar assembly constituency, Tamil Nadu state DGP T. K. Rajendran issued transfer orders to the assistant commissioners K. Anantha Kumar (Washermanpet) N. Kumar (Thiruvotriyur), C. Jayasinghe (MKB Nagar) and P. Stephen (Royapuraam).
All the 4 have been kept on the waiting list.
In this situation, in order to take control of the 4 posts vacated as above, the Chennai Police Commissioner Karan Sinha has ordered some assistant commissioners to take additional charge. Accordingly:
- Assistant commissioner Arnold Easter (Port) will take additional charge of Washermanpet.
- Assistant commissioner Vimalan (Pallavaram) will take additional charge of Thiruvotriyur.
- Assistant commissioner Subbarayan (Taramani) will take additional charge of MKB Nagar.
- Assistant Commissioner Chandra sekhar (Anna Nagar) will take additional charge of Royapuram.