Mangaluru: The state government appointed Dr P S Harsha as Mangaluru city’s new Commissioner of Police and Anurag Giri as the new Deputy Commissioner of Police, on Monday, August 5.
Along with these two IPS officers, the government has issued a fresh order transferring a total of 10 IPS officers.
Earlier, the government had replaced Sandeep Patil with Dr Subrahmanyeshwara Rao as the Commissioner of Police for Mangaluru. But so far, Rao did not take charge.
As per the government’s fresh order on Monday, Dr P S Harsha will assume charge as the Commissioner of Police and Anurag Giri will take charge as the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order).
It can be noted that Dr Harsha P S had served as ASP of Puttur and was the commissioner of information department in 2017-18.