| Mr.
Maxwell Pereirakamath was born on 3 rd October, 1944 and schooled
at Mangalore's St.Aloysius. He then took degree with a B.Sc.
and Bachelors in Law from Bangalore University and holds a
diploma in Business Administration besides being in the Indian
Police Service currently. Prior to joining government service
in the year 1970, he managed his father's Coffee Estate in
Sakleshpur and was an Advocate in the Bangalore Court from
1967 to 1970.
Known
for his no-nonsense approach to curbing anti-social elements
and rioters and bringing order to chaotic conditions on city
roads in Delhi, Maxwell belongs to the Union Territories Cadre
of the I.P.S. and has worked with Delhi, Sikkim, Mizoram Police
in various capacities. After a stint as the Chief of Police
for Pondicherry, he is currently disciplining Delhi's Traffic
as the Joint Commissioner of Police for Traffic in Delhi.
With various training programms under his belt within Relations,
Traffic Management and Road Safety, in Management of Public
Offices, Productivity and Personnel etc. In addition, he has
attended seminars and conferences in various part of the world
including Japan, Singapore, U.K., Canada and in the U.S.A.
Called
the "high profile cop" of Delhi Police, the 31 year
long career of this gutsy officer is littered with laurels.
Ten national and four regional awards adorning the lapel of
his uniform have made him one of the most highly decorated
Police Officers in the country. A thoroughbred field officer
with reputation for taking the bull by his horns, Maxwell
is the recipient of the Indian Police Medal for Gallantry
(1979), the Police Medal for Meritorious Service (1987) and
the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Services(1995).
Outside
his profession, Maxwell is a Rotarian; he has been a Managing
Committee Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport of
U.K. (India Chapter); has been on the Traffic Engineering
Committee of the Indian Road Congress; a Life Member of the
Indian Society of Criminology, Institute of Road Safety Education;
and an Executive Committee Member of the Automobile Association
of Upper India in New Delhi; and a member on the Working Group
constituted by the Planning Commission on Road Accidents and
Prevention of Injuries. At various stages, he also held position
in the State Transport Authority of Delhi and the Technical
Committee of the Delhi Development Authority. Maxwell has
had occasion interact on sponsored international programmess
and projects with the Nottingham Police, Scotland Yard, the
London Metropolitan Police in U.K.; the Metropolitan Police
of Washington, New York Metropolitan Police, the Police Academy
in New York and Seattle Administration (District Attorney's
Officer and the Police) in the U.S.A. As a Member of Board
of Directors of the New Delhi YMCA, he has interacted with
YMCAs at London, Nottingham, Glasgow, Washington, New York,
Seattle, Vancouver and Chicago. A man of diverse interests
and many facet, Maxwell besides his legal background being
a Police Officer, is a visiting faculty member at various
Institutions Including the National Police Academy, the Indian
Institute of Public Administration and the school of Planning
and Architecture in Delhi; the Police Training Colleges; the
National Institute of High way safety and the Indian Institute
of Technology. A fluent speaker and prolific writer, he has
been interviewed widely on All-India Radio, the Doordarshan
and a plethora of India and Foreign TV networks including
CNN, BBC, ABN and STAR, with well over 250 appearances on
television. His versatility as a writer having earned him
a nickname of "The Thinking Policeman", his write-ups
and article appear in various publications and magazine including
the national dailies like the Times of India, the Hindustan
Times, the Indian Express, the Statesman and the pioneer.
His book "Road Safety for School" was published
by the MacMillan Company of India in 1976. And he is working
on some more, while researching on French Colonial Policing
in India, for a Ph.D. from Mumbai University. |
