Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 14: The Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, today awarded President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service, Police Medal for Meritorious Service and Police Medal for Gallantry for the year 2014 to 30 police officers of Jammu and Kashmir on the eve of Independence Day.
Officers awarded President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service are IGP (Traffic) J&K, Muneer Ahmed Khan and DIG IRP Jammu, Vijay Singh Samyal.
Police Medal for Meritorious Service have been awarded to IGP T Punchok, SP Savita Parihar, DySPs, Purshotam Lal Sharma, Abdul Wahid Giri, Hamid Hussain Choudhary, Mushtaq Ahmed Wani, Rajinder Singh Rahi and Mohammad Ajaz Bhat, Liyakat Ahmed Qadri, Private Secretary to DGP, Pawan Kumar Gupta, (PS to ADGP Headquarters) Farooq Ahmed, SIs, Ghulam Nabi Rather and Lal Bhat, ASIs, Farooq Ahmed Bhat, Buaditta, Karnail Singh and Zaffar-ullah Mir, HCs, Abdul Salam Bhat and Mohammad Rafiq Wagay.
Awardees of Police Medal for Gallantry include DySPs, Choudhary Iftikhar Ahmed and Rayaz Iqbal Tantray, Inspectors, Mohammad Manzoor Gojree and Sajad Mir, SI Tabraz Ahmed Khan, Late ASI Kafil Ahmed Mir, HC Sugreev Kumar, Constables Fayaz Ahmed and Mohammad Sadiq Quershi.
Director General of Police, K Rajendra Kumar has congratulated the awardees and their families.
Meanwhile, the State Government has awarded 41 police officers of Jammu and Kashmir with Sher-i-Kashmir Police Medals for meritorious and gallantry services.
The police officers awarded with Sher-i-Kashmir Police Medal for meritorious services are Syed Javed Mujtaba Geelani, IG Crime, Rupinder Chalotra, SSP Vigilance Organisation, Jammu, Abdul Rashid Shah, Inspector (Steno) Ministerial cadre and Madan Singh, Sub Inspector, Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy (SKPA), Udhampur.
The Presidents has also awarded three officers of Fire Services with Distinguished and Meritorious Service Medals.
Rajinder Kumar Hak, Joint Director has been awarded with President’s Fire Service Medal for Distinguished Service while Romesh Chander Raina, Assistant Director and Vijay Kumar Bhat, Station officer have been awarded with Fire Service Medal for Meritorious Services.
The police officers awarded Sher-i-Kashmir Police Medal for Gallantry are Reyaz Ahmed Mir, ASI, Gh. Nabi, SGCT, Mohd. Hussain Mir, SGCT, Mohd. Hussain Wani, SGCT, Anil Dhar, Constable, Abdul Waheed, SP, Awantipora, Davinder Singh, SI, Faisal Khan, HC, Vinod Kumar, ASI, Athar Parveez, HC, Ajit Dhar, SGCT, Mushtaq Ahmad Wani, DySP, SDPO, Sopore, Ajiaz Hussain Wani, Abdul Jabbar, SP Kupwara Nikhil Gogna, DySP (Prob) Lalpora, Mohd. Subhan Naik, SGCT, Qaisar Iqbal Lone, Constable, Mushtaq Ahmed Mir, SGCT, Iqbal Ahmad Mir, Constable, Mohd. Altaf Dar, SI, Shahnawaz Ahmad Paday, HC, Deepak Bhat, SGCT, Irshad Ahmad, SGCT, Azad Ahmad Naik, SGCT, Lakhbir Singh, SGCT, Suhail Mushtaq, SI, Mushtaq Ahmed Najar, SGCT, Gh. Nabi Dar, Constable, Mumtaz Ahmed, SP Kulgam, Jagdish Raj, HC, Mubasher Ahmad Khoja, HC, Wajahat Hussain, DySP(Ops) Rafiabad, Mohd. Gulab Khan, ASI Rashid Akber Makayee, Inspector, (now DySP), Mir Sajad Bashir, SI Aijaz Ahmad Mir, HC and Manzoor Hussain Peer, Constable.
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