Overview
- The state government has posted T. S. Anbu as Additional Director-General of Police for law and order and moved Maheshwar Dayal to head the police administration wing.
- Former Chennai commissioner A. Arun was appointed director of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC), returning to active duty after an election-period compulsory wait.
- Transfer orders were issued by additional chief secretary K. Manivasan and affect three senior IPS officers in immediate postings.
- Anbu is a 2001-batch IPS officer who led the Crime Branch-CID, won the Chief Minister’s Police Medal for public service, and participated in operations such as Operation Puttur that arrested members linked to the banned outfit Al Ummah.
- Compulsory wait is an Election Commission tool used during the model code of conduct to neutralize officials, and these reassignments restore senior officers to roles that shape responses to serious crimes and anti-corruption oversight in the state.