{"id":1033206,"date":"2026-09-04T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033206"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:39:56","slug":"from-patrols-to-posts-kerala-police-officers-command-attention-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/04\/from-patrols-to-posts-kerala-police-officers-command-attention-online\/","title":{"rendered":"From patrols to posts, Kerala police officers \u2018command\u2019 attention online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: He may wear his khaki uniform to work, but on Instagram, deputy inspector general (DIG) Yathish Chandra G H speaks a language far from traditional police briefings. With more than 160 posts and 115,000 followers, the officer has become one of Kerala police\u2019s most visible faces on the platform \u2014 sharing glimpses of policing and public life <\/p>\n<p>Yathish is not alone. From S Sreejith to P Vijayan and Nidhinraj, a growing group of state IPS officers have massive audiences on Instagram, while officers such as Manoj Abraham and Karthick have an active presence on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: He may wear his khaki uniform to work, but on Instagram, deputy inspector general (DIG) Yathish Chandra G H speaks a language far from traditional police briefings. With more than 160 posts and 115,000 followers, the officer has become one of Kerala police\u2019s most visible faces on the platform \u2014 sharing glimpses of policing and public life Yathish is not alone. From S Sreejith to P Vijayan and Nidhinraj, a growing group of state IPS officers have massive audiences on Instagram, while officers such as Manoj Abraham and Karthick have an active presence on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033224,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033206\/revisions\/1033224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}