Suneel Kumar takes over as city police commissioner

T Suneel Kumar, a 1987 batch IPS officer, took charge as the City Police Commissioner on Monday.

Kumar arrived at the commissioner’s office at around 8 pm and received the baton from outgoing commissioner Praveen Sood. Addressing the media, Kumar said he believes in team work and his priorities are to strengthen law and order, better detection and deterrence of crime, ensuring women and child safety and curbing underworld and rowdy menace.

“We will continue with the initiatives that my predecessors have introduced and as we get the pulse of the city, we will start new initiatives,” he said. He said the stress will be on redressing public grievances with people friendly policing. He said his predecessors were active on Twitter and Facebook and he will continue to be on social media.

Speaking about the real estate mafia taking citizens for a ride, Kumar said the new Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA) will curb them. Responding to a query, Kumar said cybercrimes are on the rise at an alarming rate and there is a need to train officers to tackle them.

Even before the transfer orders were out, there was a buzz at the office of the commissioner about the change of guard. Sood called a meeting of his subordinates and broke the news to them. He thanked them, before waiting for Kumar to arrive.