R Sreelekha IPS

Senior IPS Officer and Author

R Sreelekha is one among the gemstones Kerala ever owned. Apart from being the very first woman IPS officer from the state, she is also the first woman in Kerala to become the Director General of Police.



After joining the police force, she took upon a multitude of roles, ranging from the Managing Director of Kerala State Cooperative Rubber Marketing Federation to the Managing Director of the Roads and Bridges Development Corporation of Kerala to ADGP Vigilance to the Inspector General of the Crime branch to the Transport Commissioner and so on.



She is also renowned for bridging the gender gap and working for women empowerment and represented India in United Nations to form protocols to combat woman trafficking.



Apart from her services, she has also authored several books in Malayalam, three of them on crime investigation and owns a blog in her name as well that confines clusters of touching real life stories she heard within her prison boundaries.

