Department Indian Police Service Name K. Kumar | Years of service 1975-2012 Country India | |
Similar People Veerappan, C Sylendra Babu, Shivdeep Lande | ||
A p j abdul kalam s simplicity and magnetic personality inspired me k vijay kumar thanthi tv
K Vijay Kumar, IPS (born 15 September 1952) is a retired IPS officer. He was the Chief of the Special Task Force of Tamil Nadu that was behind the brave encounter of the notorious bandit Veerappan during Operation Cocoon of 2004.
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- A p j abdul kalam s simplicity and magnetic personality inspired me k vijay kumar thanthi tv
- he is more deadly than veerappan in a way k vijay kumar ips tn 06
- Career
- In popular culture
- Book
- References
he is more deadly than veerappan in a way k vijay kumar ips tn 06
Career
Vijay Kumar joined the Indian Police Service on 10 November 1975. He served as Assistant superintendent in Pattukkottai, Trichy and Sembiam. As Superintendent of Police, he served in Dharmapuri from 1982 to 1983 and Salem from 1983 to 1985. He assisted Walter Devaram during this tenure. He Served from 1985 to 1990 in the Elite Special Protection Group (SPG) with former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.In 1990 he was posted as the SP of Dindigul district followed by Vellore district in 1991. He dealt with the Bus conductors and drivers strike with a firm hand. In 1991 he along with Sanjay Arora went on to form the Special Security Group (SSG) to provide security to Former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa.In 1997 he was posted as the first Inspector General of Police for the South Zone of Tamil Nadu after having handled the caste clashes in the southern districts. He served from 1998 to 2000 as the Inspector General, Border Security Force (BSF) Srinagar during the peak of militancy. He also served as IG(Operations),BSF before being recalled to the state to head the operations to hunt the forest brigand verrapan. In December 2001 he was appointed Commissioner of Police for Chennai city. The highlight of his career came was when he headed the task force operation, Operation Cocoon that killed the forest brigand Veerappan in October 2004.
In 2008, Vijay Kumar was chosen to head the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad. He served as the Director-general of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) from 2010 to 2012. In December 2012, the Union government appointed him as Senior Security Adviser in Ministry of Home Affairs in Government of India.
In popular culture
In 2013, Kannada film Attahasa, also made as Vana Yuddham in Tamil, based on the life and death of Veerappan, the role of Vijay Kumar was played by Arjun Sarja, and in 2016 the role was essayed by K. S. Sridhar in Killing Veerappan.
Book
In his book, Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand (ISBN: 978-81-291-4535-2), he has given an authentic account of the rise and fall of Veerappan. The last section details about the Operation Coccoon. He was very much proud to write the Chapter 34. The events in this chapter are narrated in a Countdown manner. When he recalled those events, they were very much fresh in his mind.
