Anami Narayan Roy is the Police Commissioner of Mumbai. He took over as the police chief on 5 February2004 under controversial circumstances after the previous Commissioner was shunted out based on the Home Minister's orders. His major task since he took over was the investigation into the Telgi scam worth crores of rupees. Roy is an Indian Penal Service officer and was the commissioner of the nearby city of Pune before taking over. Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the most populous Indian city. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Abdul Karim Telgi is an alleged scamster from India. ... A crore is a unit in a traditional number system, still widely used in India. ... The Indian Police Service (IPS) is one of the services of the government of the state of India; others being Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Engineering Service,Indian Economic Service etc. ... Pune, formerly called Poona, is the second largest city (after Mumbai) in the state of Maharashtra, India. ...
The rise in crime rate was not an indicator of the safety of a city whose population is comparable to that of New York and Delhi, Roy, who is completing two years in office on Monday as the chief of one of the top police forces in the country, said.
Roy, who took over when the underworld activities were still on, said before he took over, there was a general fear among people about safety.
Roy said he believed in basic, fundamental policing, which according to him was the ultimate solution to all problems.