He also brought the looters before society and charted out effective action plans to curb the violence and everything was back to normalcy within one week, he said. "Though I was not in Thalassery at that time, I have heard of him and it is said that he was a daring police officer with great dreams", said AK Vasudevan, a former IPS officer who was the commandant of the Malabar Special Police (MSP which was deployed in Thalassery following the riots). He worked in Thalassery for five months and he later joined the central service.