Abu campus comprising the service staff made redundant by the Academy's move.
[2] Diaz was an avid reader of the Tirukkuṟaḷ, the ancient Tamil classic on morality.
[3] Along with his career-oriented works on prison reforms, social equality, women's empowerment and victimology, his complete English translation of the Kural text, which was published in two volumes, led to his being described as the "Philosopher-Policeman.
Arul for his bandobust scheme for the 1968 Mahamakam Festival in Kumbakonam, who described him as "an officer without crease in his uniform as in his conduct" in the terms of Victor Hugo, who first used the phrase in Les Miserables to characterise Inspector Javert.
In 2000, he died in an accident at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel Police Academy's silver jubilee celebrations on the Hyderabad campus.