Police News

Following a tip-off from an arrested terror suspect, police teams from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh arrested 2-suspects while 2-others escaped in a 12-hour joint operation in Puttur, Andhra Pradesh in which a police inspector succumbed to stab wounds. The suspects were involved in about 10-cases in Tamil Nadu and were allegedly planning bomb blasts in a temple at Tirumala.

SVP National Police Academy, where IPS officers are trained, is set to get its first woman chief. Aruna Bahuguna, a 1979-batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, is tipped to be posted as the Academy's director, said a source. She is currently the special director-general of CRPF, second only to the chief of country's largest paramilitary force in hierarchy.