Mangaluru : M.Chandra Shekhar IPS will be the new Police Commissioner of Mangaluru as S Murugan has been transferred; the order was issued on Friday.

S Murugan took charge as the Police Commissioner of the city on January 1, 2015; however it is yet to be known where he would be transferred.

Sources say that Chandra Shekhar was the Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) in the state capital. He belonged to the 1998 batch and served as the DIG of Karnataka Fire and Emergency Services before being posted as the Joint Commissioner in Bengaluru.