As many as 17 IPS officers have been shifted in Kerala in a major reshuffle. K Padmakumar has been appointed ADGP, Police Headquarters, while Manoj Abraham is now Director, Vigilance and Yogesh Gupta was transferred as Managing Director (ADG level), Beverages Corporation. Similarly, M R Ajith Kumar will be posted as ADGP, Armed Police Battalion; Thummala Vikram as IGP, North Zone; Ashok Yadav as IG, Security; S Shyam Sundar as IG, Crime; Dr A Sreenivasan as SP, Special Branch (Security); K Karthik as SP, Kottayam; T Narayanan as Additional IG, Police Headquarters; Merin Joseph as City Commissioner, Kollam; Karuppasamy R as SP, Kozhikode Rural; Aravind Sukumar as Commandant, Kerala Armed Police 5th Battalion; D Shilpa as SP, Women's Cell with additional charge of Women's Battalion and R Anand was shifted as SP, Wayanad.