:: Thiruvananthapuram City Police ::

The post of first Superintendent of Police in the erstwhile Travancore State was created in 1881. Sir. Cliver. H. Benseley was the first Superintendent of Police. The entire Travancore Police was headed by the Superintendent of Police. In 1919 the post of Commissioner of Police, Travancore State was formed and Travancore State was divided into three Police districts namely Trivandrum, Quilon and Alleppey each under a Superintendent of Police. The Commissioner of Police was the Head of the Travancore State Police Force till 1938.

In 1938 the post of Inspector General of Police as the head of the Travancore State Police Force was created. Sri. Khan Abdul Kharim Khan Suharawarthy was appointed as the first Inspector General of Police.The post of Commissioner of Police was redesignated as the head of Trivandrum District Police and other two Police Districts were headed by Superintendents of Police.

At the time of the formation of Kerala State on 1st November 1956 Travancore was divided into four districts viz. Trivandrum, Quilon, Alleppey and Kottayam. Sri. Bhaskara Marar IPS was the Superintendent of Police, Trivandrum District and Commissioner of Police, Trivandrum City from 01.11.1956 to 14.01.1957.

The area comprising the city of Trivandrum within the Revenue District of Trivandrum was constituted as a separate Police District under the Commissioner of Police vide G.O.(MS)No.570/Home/dated 07.11.1962.

ABOUT THIRUVANANTHAPURAM CITY
Thiruvananthapuram is the capital city of the state of Kerala in Indian Union. It was the seat of former princely state of Travancore. Thiruvananthapuram City has its boundary with Thiruvananthapuram Rural District Police on all three sides and the Arabian Sea on the Western Side. City Police has got a good length of coastal line extending from Adimalathura to Pallithura. The internationally famous KOVALAM beach is situated in Thiruvananthapuram city police limit.

ABOUT CITY POLICE
City Police, Thiruvananthapuram does the overall Policing in the capital city. The Commissioner of Police heads City Police. It strives to provide excellent service to the general public. City Police encourages community participation in crime prevention. City Police Thiruvananthapuram was awarded best Police unit Award in the year 1993 and 1998. City Police consists of following units :

Law and order unit
This unit consists of three police subdivisions, ten circles and twenty one police stations. This unit is mainly responsible for law and order maintenance as well as prevention and detection of crimes.

Traffic unit
This unit consists of two subdivisions. This unit is responsible for the regulation and enforcement of traffic.

Control Room
This unit is the nerve center of City Police and conducts round the clock patrolling through the mobiles attached to it.

District Armed Reserve
This is the reserve force of Thiruvananthapuram City Police to assist the Local Police.

Narcotics cell
This unit is responsible for the controlling of narcotics and drugs.

Crime Detachment
This unit conducts investigation of special cases.

City Special Branch
This unit provides intelligence inputs to City Police.

Dog Squad
This unit is responsible for the training of police dogs and their fitness.

Mounted Police
This unit is responsible for the training of horses and their fitness.

District Crime Records Bureau
This unit keeps the records of all criminals.

Foreigners Registration Office
This unit is responsible for keeping records on foreigners.

Tourist Police
Provides help to the tourists visiting this place.

Women Police / Vanitha Cell
Provides help to City Police in law and order and crime prevention and detection.

The policing in the capital city is quite critical as any incident in this place has ramification all over the state and any incident in any part of the state will have a reflection here. City Police strives to provide excellent service to the general public.

Tourist Police
Tourist police wing was created in the year 1997 with the aim to provide help to the tourists visiting the tourist spots particularly the foreign tourists visiting this city. The objectives of the tourist police are

To provide information about places of importance in Thiruvananthapuram and adjoining area to the tourists.
To provide details about accommodation facilities available in Thiruvananthapuram.
To provide the details of distance, fare and conveyance facilities to the tourists.
To maintain law and order at tourist spots.
To provide assistance to the tourists in case of emergency.

These Police personnel have been trained specially to meet the above objectives. At present you can see tourist police personnel at Kovalam Beach, Central Railway Station Trivandrum, International Airport Trivandrum , Veli Tourist Village and Akkulam Tourist Centre. Tourists visiting these areas may seek the help of these police personnel.

The Trivandrum City Police started functioning on 01.01.1956. The first Commissioner of Police was Bhaskara Marar IPS who held charge from 1/1/1956 to 14/1/1957. Since then, the office of the Commissioner changed hands through the following officers for the period noted against them:

Sl No	Name		From	To
	Superintendent of Police, Trivandrum District
1	Bhaskara Marar IPS	01/01/1956		14/01/1957
2	Ananthasankara Iyer IPS	14/01/1957		11/03/1958
3	T.Paul IPS	11/03/1958		28/12/1958
4	M. Krishna Pillai IPS	28/12/1958		18/05/1959
5	V.P. Nair IPS (Addl. Charge)	21/05/1959		12/06/1959
6	T.K. Bhaskara Marar IPS	12/06/1959		24/03/1960
7	Sethumadhava Menon IPS	24/03/1960		04/07/1960
8	P. Vijayan IPS	04/07/1960		15/11/1962
	Commissioners of Police, Tvm City
1	Symon T. Manjooran IPS		15/11/1962	14/05/1964
2	Srinivasa Rao IPS		16/05/1964	21/04/1965
3	T. Ananthasankara Iyer IPS		21/04/1965	22/06/1965
4	K. Sethumadhavamenon IPS		22/06/1965	02/03/1966
5	Symon T. Manjooran IPS		02/03/1966	22/06/1967
6	K. Sethumadhavamenon IPS		22/06/1967	12/07/1967
7	R. J. Padikkal IPS		12/07/1967	09/10/1967
8	P.K. Mohammad Hasan		09/10/1967	18/02/1969
9	V. Krishnamoorthy IPS		18/02/1969	03/07/1970
10	C. Subramaniam IPS		03/07/1970	01/12/1973
11	P.R. Chandran IPS		01/12/1973	13/02/1975
12	N. Krishnan Nair IPS		17/02/1975	26/06/1976
13	P.K. Hormis Tharakan IPS		26/06/1976	04/09/1976
14	V.Joseph Thomas IPS		04/09/1976	17/05/1977
15	B.S Sasthry IPS		17/05/1977	07/11/1977
16	M.G.A Ramen IPS (Addl. Charge)		07/11/1977	01/12/1977
17	Tapeshwar Sharma IPS		01/12/1977	13/02/1978
18	S.R.K. Menon		13/02/1978	26/05/1978
19	T.S. Viswanatha Pillai IPS		26/05/1978	05/01/1979
20	U.P.R Menon		21/01/1979	06/04/1979
21	R.P.C. Nair IPS		04/06/1979	12/05/1980
22	M.G.A Ramen IPS		12/05/1980	25/05/1981
23	R.K. Medhekar IPS		25/05/1981	30/01/1983
24	Alphones Louis Erayil IPS		30/01/1983	11/11/1983
25	K. Lakshmana IPS		11/11/1983	13/12/1985
26	K.G. Premshankar IPS		26/12/1985	04/06/1986
27	Raman Srivastava IPS		04/06/1986	01/09/1986
	DIG & Commissioners of Police, Tvm City
1	Raman Srivastava IPS		01/09/1986	30/04/1987
2	T.P. Gopinathan IPS		30/04/1987	23/11/1988
3	Jacob Punnoose IPS		12/12/1988	09/08/1989
4	R.P.C. Nair IPS		12/08/1989	01/10/1989
5	Raman Srivastava IPS		01/10/1989	30/06/1990
6	K.P. Somarajan IPS		01/07/1990	21/07/1991
7	Siby Mathews IPS		21/07/1991	04/12/1991
8	P. Sasidharan IPS		17/12/1991	14/05/1992
9	K. S. Balasubramanian IPS		14/05/1992	22/09/1992
10	V.R. Rajiven IPS		22/09/1992	25/06/1995
11	G. Surendran IPS		25/06/1995	18/10/1996
12	Maheshkumar Singla IPS		18/10/1996	08/10/1997
	Commissioners of Police, Tvm City( Supt. of Police)
1	Arunkumar Sinha IPS		09/10/1997	19/04/2000
2	K. Padmakumar IPS		19/04/2000	15/06/2001
3	Rajan Singh IPS		15/06/2001	19/06/2004
4	Balram Kumar Upadhyay IPS		19/06/2004	18/08/2005
5	Manoj Abraham IPS		18/08/2005	16/11/2006
	DIG & Commissioners of Police, Tvm City
1	K. Padmakumar IPS		21/11/2006	28/06/2007
2	Ravada.A Chandrasekhar IPS		28/06/2007	04/05/2009
3	S. Gopinath IPS		04/05/2009	25/05/2009
4	M.R. Ajithkumar IPS		25/05/2009	01/03/2011
5	Manoj Abraham IPS		01/03/2011	07/01/2012
6	T.J.Jose IPS		09/01/2012