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Annamalai is known for his work as part of the police force and has also been called as "''Karnataka Singham''".<ref name="An2">{{cite web|author=Moneycontrol News|date=30 May 2019|title=Bengaluru's 'Singham' IPS officer quits police force after senior's death|url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/bengalurus-singham-ips-officer-quits-police-force-after-seniors-death-4038521.html|publisher=Moneycontrol|accessdate=21 June 2020}}</ref> He was a 2011 batch IPS officer and he started his police career as the Assistant Superintendent of Police, Karkala sub-division in [[Udupi]] district of [[Karnataka]] in September 2013 where he was later promoted on 1 January 2015 as a Superintendent of Police in the same location and served there as an SP till August 2016. He was then transferred to [[Chikmagalur|Chikkamagaluru]] district of Karnataka and continued as an SP till October 2018. He got promoted as a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru south in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|author=Moneycontrol News|date=31 May 2019|title=Bengaluru's 'Singham' IPS officer quits police force after senior's death|url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/bengalurus-singham-ips-officer-quits-police-force-after-seniors-death-4038521.html|publisher=Moneycontrol|accessdate=21 June 2020}}</ref>

Annamalai joined the police service in 2011, and his first posting took him to [[Karkala]] in Karnataka as [[Superintendent of police (India)|Assistant Superintendent of police]]. Here, he spearheaded an awareness campaign against drug abuse and the sale of tobacco, shutting down several illegal liquor shops. He held seminars in colleges against drug addiction and set up complaint boxes where students could post anonymous tips about illegal activities.{{fact|date=January 2022}}

He was serving as the [[Commissioner of Police (India)|Deputy Commissioner of Police]], Bengaluru South when he decided to quit in 2019. In his resignation letter, Annamalai said it was not a sudden decision but a well-thought-out one rooted in a 2018 trip to Kailash Mansarovar. The death of a respected senior helped the realisation take a deeper hold. "My trip to Kailash Mansarovar made me introspect. The death of IPS officer Madhukar Shetty, 47, in December 2018, made me look back at my life," he had told Press at the time.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=ChennaiJuly 8|first1=Pramod Madhav|last2=July 8|first2=2021UPDATED|last3=Ist|first3=2021 20:54|title=BJP appoints former IPS officer K Annamalai as Tamil Nadu unit chief|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/bjp-appoints-former-ips-officer-k-annamalai-as-tamil-nadu-unit-chief-1825665-2021-07-08|access-date=2022-01-17|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref>