22 police officers including three IPS officers from Karnataka were chosen for the prestigious President’s police medal for their distinguished services and meritorious services in the field.
B.A. Mahesh, DIGP, Recruitment; T.R. Suresh, Commissioner of Police, Mangaluru; and A. Jagadish, ACP, Traffic North, Bengaluru city, were honoured for the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service.
Among the ones honoured with the President’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service were R.H. Naik, DIGP (Intelligence); Hamja Hussain, Superintendent of Police (Intelligence); Dy.SPs K.P. Ravi Kumar, P.U. Sharanappa, C. Sampath Kumar, N.B. Sakri, K.S. Nagaraja, and B. Balaraju; police inspector K. Satyanarayan; assistant sub-inspectors V.N. Gunavathi and K.R. Vinutha; head constables G. Srinivas Shetty, P. Mallikarjun Hegde and B.H. Hemakumar; chief head constables B.N. Mahaboob and L.A. Pathak; assistant reserve sub-inspector Jagannatha; reserve head constable Kamalaksha and armed head constable M. Krishnoji Rao
Three officers from the Karnataka Home Guards and Civil Defence Department were given the President’s Home Guards and Civil Defence Medal for their meritorious service: B. Amaranath, Commandant, Home Guards, Bengaluru North district; V. Gowramma, Sargent, Home Guards, Bengaluru South district; and Syed Javed Pasha, Platoon Commander, Home Guards, Raichur district.
The medals were presented on the occasion of 69th Republic day at Field Marshal Manekshaw Parade Grounds here on 26th January.