Anand Pillay (policeman)

Anand Pillay during a press conference in Mogadishu .

Anand Pillay is a South African brigadier general with the South African Police Service (SAPS). Since May 2014 he has been in office as Police Commissioner (comparable to a police chief ), the highest head of the police component of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).

In his current office he succeeded Ben Oyo Nyeko , who temporarily held the office from 2012 to 2014 after the resignation of Zimbabwean Charles Makono .

Pillay was previously Police Commissioner for the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS). He then became the commander of the Milnerton Group in the Western Cape Province . He is an alumnus of the University of South Africa .

Web links

Commons : Anand Pillay - collection of images, videos and audio files

Anand Pillay - AMISOM Police Commissioner website

Individual evidence

^ Telephone List - Cluster Commanders & Station Commandoers Western Cape. (pdf) (No longer available online.) p. 6 , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 6, 2015 .
↑ AMISOM appoints new Police Commissioner. AMISOM, May 24, 2014, accessed October 6, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pillay, Anand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	South African Brigadier General of the South African Police Service and Police Commissioner of AMIS and AMISOM
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[black-1] Telephone List - Cluster Commanders & Station Commandoers Western Cape. (pdf) (No longer available online.) p. 6 , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 6, 2015 .

[amisom201405-2] AMISOM appoints new Police Commissioner. AMISOM, May 24, 2014, accessed October 6, 2015 .