Radhakrishnan, IPS (born 21 July 1958) is an Indian Police Service Officer of the batch of 1983, belonging to the Tamil Nadu Cadre.
Currently, he is serving as the Director General of Police of the Civil Supplies, CID department of Tamil Nadu.
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Radhakrishnan also holds a PhD from the Department of Criminology from the University of Madras for seminal research on ‘Tactical and Strategic Police Response to Communal Violence: Coimbatore, a case study’, awarded by the University of Madras in October 2009.
He received the Queen's Award for Innovation in Police Training and Development in 2002 and 2004 and is the only officer from all of Commonwealth Nations to have won the distinguished bi-annual award consecutively.
In his personal life, he is a voracious reader, a fervent patron of Tamil Literature and an academic at heart.