1994 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Kala Ramachandran on Tuesday took charge as the first woman Police Commissioner of Gurugram.
The focused areas of the newly appointed police chief will be traffic management, curbing cybercrime, vehicle theft and burglaries in the millennium city.
While interacting with the reporters, the newly appointed police chief said that Gurugram is one of the most important districts among other districts of Haryana.
“Gurugram being in the peripherals of the National Capital, is also the focus point if anything happens here and it doesn’t take time to become more sensational as compared to rest of Haryana.,” she said.
“While interaction with the police officials of the city, it came to light that there is a lot of traffic mess due to several ongoing construction projects and our focus will be to ease traffic movements in the city subsequently,” said the CP adding that police will also focus on encroachment that impacts the traffic flow and necessary action will also be taken against the violators.
She had replaced KK Rao, who has been posted as IGP CPT&R Bhondsi. Ramachandran was earlier posted as principal secretary, transport, a cadre post of the Indian administrative service (IAS).
She was also posted as ADGP, State Vigilance Bureau (SVB).Ramachandran has also served as Superintendent of Police in the districts of Rewari, Fatehabad and Panchkula, she was on central deputation to the Intelligence Bureau from 2001 onwards and had returned to Haryana, her parent cadre, the previous year.