With the view of promoting the Tamil language as a primary means of communication, the police chief of Tamil Nadu J K Tripathy has directed the men and women in uniform to sign the registers in Tamil and instructed the police personnel to write the name in Tamil on their fleets and patrols. In his order, he had further asked his department to keep the seals and the name boards of the police station in the Tamil language.

The police chief has issued a circular dated November 20 across the state in which he had indicated the decision to upheld Tamil as the official language after a review meeting held with the state ministry for Tamil official language. The circular which was in Tamil and signed by Chockalingam on behalf of Tripathy reads the decision as an effort to promote the language.

The circular had directed the police officials of the state to sign the registers and attendance books in Tamil and so does the messages, files, stamps and the name boards of the senior police officials. With accord to the circular, the police officers would be drafting the circulars in Tamil fonts.

The reports say that the state police department has been tabling the mechanisms to modernize the prevailing standards where the department has planned to procure about 1,700 more computers with the latest configuration for the police personnel and the procurement can be done through the allotted funds and the police personnel and all the ministerial staff would be equipped with the computers at the end of 2020.