P. Vijayan

P Vijayan IPS, , is an Indian Police Service officer and a socially oriented Officer in uniform. He is a 1999 batch official of the Indian Police Service, currently serves as Deputy Inspector General of Police and Indian Railways. He holds an MA in Economics from Calicut University. He is a voracious reader and motivational orator who always believe in multitasking. An accomplished and highly effective public speaker, Vijayan is very much in demand for his ability to deliver motivational speeches on a wide range of topics. He strongly believes and practise that a true leader is who develops more leaders. He is the founder and Chief Architect of the nationallyacclaimed Student Police Cadet Project, a youth development initiative. He also encompasses prominent positions in several communitybased initiatives including

Puthiyottil Vijayan was born onFebruary 1968 in a notsoaffluent family in a remote hamlet called Puthoormadam near Kozhikode in North Kerala. He is the 3rd child of P. Velayudhan and Leela. He has four brothers amp two sisters. Vijayan studied in High School at Pantheerankavu High School, Kozhikode. When he failed to clear the SSLC exam on his first attempt, he had to take up employment in construction sites at an early age. It was only after a gap of two years that he managed to pass this exam. Determined to earn a college degree, he set up a small scale manufacturing unit soap unit and took classes for schoolchildren. Vijayan then went on to do an MA and MPhil in Economics from Calicut University, and finally passed the prestigious Civil Services examination in 1999 to join the IPS.

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