GEORGE TOWN: Former Penang and Selangor deputy chief police officer (CPO) CP Thaiveegan Arumugam will take over as Penang state police chief effective Dec 31.
He will succeed outgoing police chief CP Chuah Ghee Lye, 60, who will be retiring at the end of the month after 40 years of service in the police force.
Thaiveegan, 58, who is known for his tough stance against underworld gangs and serious crimes, served as Penang deputy CPO for three years from Sept 2013.
He was then transferred to the Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) as its investigations chief.
Ipoh-born Thaiveegan is a graduate in criminology from Universiti Malaya.
He also underwent training in several areas including disaster victim identification with the Australian Federal Police; hostage negotiation in Thailand; police management in the US and an international police command course at the Royal Malaysia Police College.
He began his career in 1985 at the age of 27 as a cadet assistant superintendent . He later served as a senior investigator at the Petaling Jaya district police headquarters in 1986.
That same year, Thaiveegan was transferred to the federal special branch unit in Bukit Aman where he served for five years until 1991.
He then served with the Commercial Crimes Department for 13 years, under the banking, financial and anti-money laundering department, before being made its chief in 2003.
In 2004, Thaiveegan served two years as Sentul district police chief and later served as Kedah’s deputy CPO for two years until 2008.
He then served as Sarawak police management chief from 2009 to 2010 and later returned to the peninsula to serve as Selangor deputy CPO from 2010 to 2013.
In 2013, he was sent to Penang where he was the deputy CPO until September 2016. He was then seconded to Bukit Aman to head the CCID. -FMT
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