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BIO
Shri K Vijay Kumar IPS (retd) is a 1975 batch IPS officer. He is currently the Advisor to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. He holds extensive experience in Jungle Operations, security detailing and counter-insurgency. He had served in the SPG security details of Rajiv Gandhi and later was appointed as the head of SPG to protect J Jayalalitha, then Chief Minister of Tamilnadu. He is not new to Jammu and Kashmir. In 1998, he was appointed as IG, operations of BSF in the state.
In 2004, he was appointed to head the Special Task Force ‘Operation Cocoon’ to hunt down forest brigand Veerappan. Veerappan was wanted for the killings of almost 184 people, mostly police officers and for almost a decade, he had terrorized 3 state governments and paramilitary forces. The operations were one of the costliest in the History of India. Soon after K Vijay Kumar’s appointment, Veerappan was killed on 18 October 2004.
He headed the National Police Academy in Hyderabad from 2008 till 2010. In 2010, he was appointed the Director General of CRPF. He has studied the Naxal and Maoist operations extensively and was appointed by the Ministry of Home Affairs as the senior security advisor in 2012. He was tasked with the revision of India’s anti-Naxal policy after 26 CRPF men were killed in a Maoist attack in Sukma.
Mr Vijay Kumar holds a Masters in Business Law from National Law School, Bangalore. He also holds a Masters and Bachelors degree in Law from University of Madras.
Mr Vijay Kumar is a sharpshooter and fitness enthusiast. He is also a voracious reader. He is the author of the book ‘Veerappan, Chasing the Brigand’.