Senior IPS officer M N Reddi has been made the new intelligence chief in the upgraded post.

In a minor reshuffle of IPS officers on Wednesday, the government made Reddi  Director General of Police (Intelligence) in place of IGP, B Dayananda, who has been made Commissioner of Transport and Road Safety.

He was Director General and Commandant General, Home Guards, Ex Officio Director Fire Force. Neelamani N Raju has replaced Reddi.

Other transfers 

Rajvir Pratap Sharma (Managing Director, Karnataka Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited and ADGP BMTF); Prashant Kumar Thankur (ADGP, Forest Cell); N Chaitra (Superintendent of Police, Railways Police); Ram Niwas Sepat (DCP, Crime, Bengaluru city) and Anoop A Shetty (SP, Chikkaballapur).