N. K. Senthamarai Kannan

N. K. Senthamarai Kannan
IPS
Born Tamil Nadu, India
Alma mater University of Madras
Police career
Department Indian Police Service
Country India
Years of service 1997-present

N. K. Senthamarai Kannan is a Police Commissioner, and former Inspector General of Police in the Indian Police Service.[1][2][3] He is the first Tiruppur city police commissioner.[4][5] He has also served as a Special Task Force spy who headed the intelligence wing in the Operation Cocoon,[1][2] behind the encounter with the notorious bandit Veerappan under the leadership of K. Vijay Kumar. The 2016 film Killing Veerappan is based on the operation carried out by him.[6][7] Kannan was a 1997-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, who entered the State police service as a Deputy Superintendent of Police in 1999, and was later conferred IPS in 2003 with six years’ retrospective effect.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "New IG assumes charge - The Hindu".
  2. 1 2 "The spy who spiked Veerappan". The Times of India.
  3. ↑ "Abducted 4-year-old traced to AP". The New Indian Express.
  4. ↑ "N.K Senthamarai Kannan SPS/IPS,promoted as IG of Police,in Tamil Nadu Government".
  5. 1 2 Staff Reporter. "Chief Minister declares open police commissionerate in Tirupur". The Hindu.
  6. ↑ "Meet Senthamaraikannan, the supercop Shivarajkumar plays in Killing Veerappan". The News Minute.
  7. ↑ "The end of Veerappan".
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