Hyderabad: N. Sambasiva Rao is the new director-general of police of Andhra Pradesh. The 1984 batch IPS officer took the charge as the new state police chief on retirement of J. V. Ramudu.
Sambasiva Rao, who is currently the managing director of AP State Road Transport Corporation, will be holding the additional charge as the DGP till further orders, an order issued by the state government said.
Ramudu, who was the first police chief of the reorganised Andhra Pradesh state, was given a warm send-off by his colleagues. Four AP Special Police Battalions took part in the farewell parade in Vijayawada on Saturday. The function was attended by all top officials of the state police including the new DGP.
Sambasiva Rao thanked chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for his positing. He announced that he would be working from the new temporary capital Vijayawada.
Praising the leadership of Ramudu as the state police chief during the difficult post-bifurcation phase, he said that he worked hard when the police force lacked the necessary facility and the work force in the newly formed state.
“I will give priority to the use of technology in skill upgradation of the force and to enforce law and order,” he said.
In his farewell message, Ramudu said that 33 per cent of the jobs in the state police force will be henceforth reserved for women. A day before his retirement, he had issued a notification for the recruitment to 4,569 posts in the state police department.
