Hyderabad: ACP DGP Anjani Kumar is going to assume charge as DGP of Telangana on Saturday. The present DGP Mahender Reddy is retiring from service on superannuation on December 31^st.
Anjani Kumar, IPS 1990 batch is Director General, ACB, Telangana, is now  transferred and posted as DGP (co-ordination) and placed in full additional charge of the post of DGP (HoPF), Telangana in place of M Mahendar Reddy,  the Government order said. Anjani Kumar had earlier served as Hyderabad Police Commissioner.

Anjani Kumar was born on January 28^th, 1966. He got his first assignment of IPS officer as Assistant Superintendent of police of Jangaon in Warangal district of erstwhile undivided Andhra Pradesh. After serving as Additional SP (Operations) of Mahbubnagar, he worked as SP Guntur and Prakasam districts.

In 1998, he went on UNs mission at Bosnia-Herzegovina for one year. The next four years, he was on deputation with Central Government serving with Central Industrial Security Force.

He held key posts of Chief of Counter Intelligence cell in the rank of Deputy Inspector General and Chief of Greyhounds. He served as Hyderabad Police Commissioner from 2018 and has the distinction of having longest tenure of three years and nine months in post-Nizam period.