Rohith Nathan IPS is currently DCP Anna Nagar in GCP, Tamil Nadu police. He has served in several places such as Nagapattinam, Hosur (Krishnagiri), Sivagangai and Chennai city. He has held many responsibilities such as SP Railways, Chief Vigilance Officer – Aavin, SP Crime Branch CID & Cyber Crime, SP Narcotics Intelligence etc.
He also has a masters in police management and an MSc in cyber forensics and information security, he has recently started work on his PhD as well.
He is fond of innovation and was the first officer to pilot facial recognition technology in Tamil Nadu. He submitted the architecture for contact tracing to Ministry of Home Affairs which led to the app we all know as Aarogya Sethu, he was also the first person to introduce toll gate monitoring technology in the country and his pilot is now being implemented in Tamil Nadu and across India as well. He helped set up the grief counselling helpline for suicide prevention during COVID 19 pandemic at the state Covid war room.
He is passionate about public service and till today guides students from Tamil Nadu for the UPSC Civil Sevice Exam interview.