N. K. Senthamarai Kannan

N. K. Senthamarai Kannan
IPS
Born
Tamil Nadu, India
Alma materMadurai Kamaraj University
Police career
CountryIndia
DepartmentIndian Police Service
Service years1989-present

N. K. Senthamarai Kannan[1][2][3] is a Police Commissioner, and former Inspector General of Police in the Indian Police Service.[4][5][6] He is the first Tiruppur city police commissioner.[7][8] He has also served as a Special Task Force spy who headed the intelligence wing in the Operation Cocoon,[4][5] 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.[9][10] Kannan is a 1997-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, who entered the State police service as a Deputy Superintendent of Police in 1989, and was later conferred IPS in 2003 with six years’ retrospective effect.[8] He studied Economics in The American College, Madurai and later became Asst Professor in Economics in the same college from 1985, worked there till he entered Tamil Nadu State Police service in 1989.

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  5. ^ a b "The spy who spiked Veerappan". The Times of India. 19 October 2004.
  6. ^ "Abducted 4-year-old traced to AP". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016.
  7. ^ "N.K Senthamarai Kannan SPS/IPS, promoted as IG of Police, in Tamil Nadu Government".
  8. ^ a b Staff Reporter (19 November 2013). "Chief Minister declares open police commissionerate in Tirupur". The Hindu.
  9. ^ "Meet Senthamaraikannan, the supercop Shivarajkumar plays in Killing Veerappan". The News Minute. 6 January 2016.
  10. ^ "The end of Veerappan".