Chennai cop’s striking management of traffic catapults him to fame
FB post has received over 12,000 likes and has already been shared over 4,000 times
Chennai: A Facebook post by an Infosys employee on a ‘super cop’ traffic constable, manning one of the signals at Sholinganallur, has gone viral and shot the latter into fame overnight.
The post on constable M. Kumar (41), by the tech major’s HR head Sujith Kumar, even caught the attention of ADGP, Coastal Security Group, C. Sylendra Babu, and prompted the senior officer to commend his service with a handwritten letter.
Speaking to DC, Sujith Kumar said ‘constable Kumar’ was a class apart and that his theatrics on OMR would remind a motorist of Superstar Rajinikanth in the film Baasha.
“When traffic stops for pedestrians to cross over, he says ‘hurry up, hurry up’ with a heavy Tamil accent. The way he signals for traffic to move forward and cries out ‘Go’, one would instantly know just how much this man enjoys doing what he does,” said Sujith. “If any motorist steps over the ‘Stop’ line, he would immediately go over and talk to him or her on the importance of obeying traffic rules,” he added.
The FB post has received over 12,000 likes and has already been shared over 4,000 times on the social networking site by many who readily attest to the ‘impressive style’ of Kumar’s traffic management.
Ask Kumar, who hails from Kallakurichi in Villupuram district, the cop who has put in 21 years of dedicated service in the force, on what he makes of the sudden rise to fame, he politely replies he is happy to have left a good impression.
“Everyone works for a monthly salary but that does not mean that one should not be service-minded in the line of duty,” said Kumar. ADGP Sylendra Babu told DC there was a handful of police officers in the state, who work exhibiting the kind of energy that Kumar does. “I saw a bit of myself in him. My gesture of appreciation was not as a superior officer but as a private citizen,” Babu said.
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