Chennai: Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) — Railways C. Sylendra Babu took the honours in the shooting competition for police officers held by the state police on Friday. This is the first time in the history of Tamil Nadu police, a competition to find the best shooter among its officers was conducted, according to officials. Of-ficers from the rank of Assistant Superinten-dent of Police (ASP) to Director General of Police (DGP) participated in the statewide event, the finals of which was held at the Marutham firing range in Tamil Nadu Commando headquarters, Chennai on Friday.
Preliminary competitions were conducted earlier at zonal levels in two groups — ASP to Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and Inspector General (IG) to DGP level officers. The 30 best shooters from across the state were selected for the finals. In the first category (ASP to DIG), Salem DIG Senthil Kumar won the first place while K .Balraj, commandant of small arms, came second. City police officer, Joint Commissioner (north), R Sudhakar won the third place.
In the second category (IG to DGP), ADGP (L &O), Vijayakumar came first while Tircuhy commissioner A. Arun and the eventual champion C, Sylendra Babu followed him. The best 10 shooters from both the groups were shortlisted and a separate competition was held for them titled, champion of champions in which ADGP Sylendra Babu took the honours. DGP T.K. Rajendran distributed the trophies to winners.
