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Vijay Kumar chosen to head National Police Academy

S.Vijay Kumar

Says he will incorporate jungle warfare at induction level

He will take
charge today
He led the team that killed Veerappan

A file photo of K.Vijay Kumar, DGP (Training), leaving his office in Chennai.

CHENNAI: K. Vijay Kumar, a 1975-batch IPS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, has been chosen to head the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Andhra Pradesh.

He will take charge as the Director of the NPA at Shivarampalli in Hyderabad on Monday.

Presently Director-General of Police (Training), Mr. Vijay Kumar goes with a rich experience spanning over 33 years in carrying out Central and State government assignments.

In October 2004, he led the Special Task Foce (STF) that gunned down brigand Veerappan and his associates, who posed a challenge to the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka police.

Earlier, he was part of the Special Protection Group (SPG) team that provided security cover to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. For about two years, he was Commissioner of Police, Chennai City, and later took charge as Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order).

Mr. Vijay Kumar also had a stint as Inspector-General of Police (Operations), Border Security Force, and Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Special Security Group (SSG) here.

“I will try to incorporate jungle warfare and urban tactics at the induction-level training programme. The observations made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the DGPs’ conference in New Delhi on counter-terrorism measures will be kept in mind while making changes in the training module at the NPA,” Mr. Vijay Kumar said.

He was part of the first batch (1975) that was trained fully at the NPA after it was shifted from Dehra Dun.

Corrections and Clarifications

[A report "Vijay Kumar chosen to head National Police Academy" (December 1, 2008) said that before the National Police Academy (NPA) was shifted to Hyderabad, it was in Dehra Dun. The NPA was in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, till 1975.]

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