HYDERABAD : Anjani Kumar, who formerly served as Director General of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), on Saturday assumed office as the new Director General of Police (DGP) of Telangana.

The Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the 1990 batch took over as state police chief when M. Mahendar Reddy resigned due to retirement.

Anjani Kumar received congratulations on the occasion from several top police authorities. The successor and other senior police officers bid Mahendar Reddy, who led the state police department for five years, farewell.

Anjani Kumar, Director General of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), was shifted on Thursday and assigned to the position of DGP (Coordination), with complete additional responsibility (HoPF).

Anjani Kumar, a native of Bihar, started working as a police officer in the Warangal district of undivided Andhra Pradesh in 1992 as ASP Jangaon. He held a variety of police roles in Andhra Pradesh before moving on to Telangana.
He held positions as DIGP of the Nizamabad and Guntur ranges as well as SP of the Guntur and Prakasam districts. He also served as the director of the Counter Intelligence Cell from 2007 to 2009 and as the commander of the Greyhounds, an anti-Maoist squad, from 2009 to 2011.

Before being named Director General of ACB, Anjani Kumar was the police commissioner of Hyderabad from 2018 to 2021.

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