T Madiyal

Thimmappaiah Madiyal (born 1944) is a retired Indian police officer who served as the Director general and Inspector-general of police of the Karnataka Police from 2002 to 2004. Prior to this, he served as the Commissioner of the Bangalore City Police from 1999 to 2001.

Early life Madiyal hails from Alike, a village in the erstwhile South Canara district of the Madras Presidency in British India (in present-day Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka, India).

Career Madiyal joined the Indian Army as a commissioned officer in 1964 under the short service commission, and took part in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965. In 1971, he joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) and was allotted the Karnataka cadre.

In the mid-1990s, Madiyal served as inspector-general of police of Karnataka State Reserve Police and other departments. He was then appointed intelligence chief of Karnataka, and then in 1999, the Commissioner of the Bangalore City Police, succeeding L. Revanasiddaiah. On promotion as DGP, he was posted to head the Corps of Detectives (CoD) in November 2001.

Later life After retirement, Madiyal served as an administrator of Ramachandrapura Mutt headed by Raghaveshwara Bharathi and served voluntarily for several years. In 2012, Madiyal joined an informal group of eminent persons as an "apolitical struggle to strengthen democracy".