After the return from Australia, it was life as usual. Amar’s wedding was over and I was not a part of the celebrations. I did catch up with some of it on return though. We went around places in Hyderabad for a couple of days and then I returned to Mangalore on the 2nd of June. I was back on track but with some changes in my job profile. The Police Commissionerate of Mangalore city finally took shape during my absence and the new and the first Police Commissioner of Mangalore city had taken charge. That was around the days when we were in Australia. So this time, when I took charge on return, the City of Mangalore ceased to be under my jurisdiction. It’s always a mixed bag to lose some jurisdiction that way, the upside being that you are that much relieved of the work load but the down side is that you are not that important anymore. Moreover there are the problems of carving out a new unit out of the existing unit. The division of manpower, logistics etc runs into so many issues and this one was no different. Off course we were able to settle the issues quickly.
So from June 2011, I continued as the SP Dakshina Kannada district with just the rural district under my command. The Law & Order responsibilities did decrease considerably, but the office work remained the same and in fact got complicated further because of the division of staff and I had to now work with 50% of them, which meant closer supervision on the work.
Deepu returned from Hyderabad a couple of days later along with Aravind and Lisa. We visited the Kaadumane tea estate at Sakleshpur and then from there Deepu took Aravind and Lisa to Madikeri for a forest Safari. They had a fairly good time out there and returned after a day. We then spent some time at home and after a couple of days Aravind and Lisa left. The monsoon had just begun and we wished they stayed here for some more time.
What followed was perhaps the longest monsoon we’d seen here. Even up to the first week of December it just kept raining. The best part was to sit beside the bedroom window and watch the sea & the changing colors of the Mangalore's horizon.
In the month of September, while all the noise regarding the Commonwealth games was still on, the Queen's Baton relay was passing through the district. So me an Deepu went to the District border at the Shiradi ghat to receive the Baton. Was a nicely organised event.
As the monsoon was closing towards October, Deepu reminded that we hadn't been to the Sita Nadi for rafting despite living so close to it. So on the 26th of Sep, a sunday we decided to go on rafting at the Sita Nadi resort at Hebri. It was a wonderful experience.
As I mentioned earlier, the work load as far as law & order did decrease a bit because of the formation of the Police Commissionerate in Mangalore, but surprisingly even the City became very quite compared to what we had to face during 2009-10. Don’t know if the people were just tired of creating trouble or it was the result of all the hard work put in during the difficult period. Whatever the reason be, it was somehow giving a feeling that the Police Commissionerate was not even necessary and that it may have been created in a hurry.
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