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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (JS)
'Want to implement technology in policing'
Mangaluru, Jan 3: New police commissioner of Mangaluru city M Chandra Sekhar took charge of his office on Sunday January 3.
Outgoing police commissioner S Murugan handed over the charge to Chandra Sekhar.
Sekhar is a 1998-batch IPS officer hailing from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. He began his IPS career as ASP of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, and later served as SP of Bilaspur and Mandi districts of the same states.
He came to Karnataka on deputation in 2009, and served as SP of internal security division for three months, after which he was posted as deputy commissioner of police, East Bengaluru division from 2009 to 2012. He was absorbed into the Karnataka cadre in 2013. Between 2012 and 2014, he served as DIG of Karnataka Fire and Emergency Services, and before being posted to Mangaluru, he was joint commissioner (crime) of Bengaluru city.
Before taking up IPS, he completed his BTech in aerospace engineering from IIT Kharagpur and worked for Infosys between 1995-'96.
Speaking to reporters, Chandra Sekhar said that his foremost priorities as Mangaluru police commissioner would be to maintain law and order, ensure welfare of police personnel and work towards making the police force more people-friendly.
Asked how he plans to handle the law and order in the communally sensitive city, "I have just come to Mangaluru and I need to study the situation from the policing point of view."
To a question on the misuse of social media, he said, "I want to implement technology in policing. We will try to reach out to people through social media. There are both merits and demerits of social media. If we come across any misuse of social media, we will take appropriate action according to the law."
On what made him switch over from aerospace engineering to IPS, he said, "I always wanted to be in the police, as it has more to do with human relations. It is about poeple and maintainnig relations with people."