Administration and Politics
Vellore is one of the 32 districts of Tamil Nadu and is administered by the Vellore District Collectorate. The present collector of Vellore district Dr P Shankar. The police force of the district is headed by the superintendent of police Ms. A.Kayalvizhi IPS. The police force present in the district has a strength of 1,733 personnel, of which the local police comprise 1,162 personnel and the armed reserve police comprise 534 personnel.
Vellore district has 12 State Legislature constituencies and comes under 3 Lok Sabha Constituencies. The table at left lists the State assembly constituencies in the state and the 2006 Tamil Nadu State Assembly Election results. The three Lok Sabha constituencies under which the district falls are Vellore, Arakkonam and Thiruvannamalai. The elected representatives (Member of Assembly) from these contituencies are Dr. V.S. Vijay (AIADMK) from Vellore, S. Ravi (AIADMK) from Arakkonam and E.V. Velu (DMK) from Thiruvannamalai.
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