Police Commemoration Day: DGP and others pay tribute to martyred police and other security personnel

Gandhinagar: On the occasion of the Police Commemoration Day today, Gujarat DGP P P Pandey and other police officials today paid tribute to the 473 martyred police and other security personnel who had lost their life during duty in the last one year.

Among those martyred in the last one year, three are from Gujarat. These are head constable of Amreli police Pankaj Amrelia , Constable of Rajkot Bharat Nesda and Constable of Ahmedabad Chandrakant Makwana.

Apart from the DGP various other senior police officers including the ADGP of IB Shivanand Jha, ADGP, CID-crime/Railway Ashish Bhatia, ADGP (Administration) Mohan Jha, Ahmedabad police commissioner A K Singh also paid tribute to the policemen at the shahid smarak in the police headquarters at Shahibaug here.

Similar functions were also organized at all the district police headquarters across the state and varopis police training schools/centers at Junagadh, Vadodara and Sorath and Gujarat Police Academy in Karai.

During the last one year the name of state/union territories/ other related organizations and the number of martyred policemen on duty is as following – Andhra Pradesh (14), Andman & Nicobar Islands (2), Arunachal Pradesh (1), Gujarat (3) Assam (8), Bihar (6), Chhatisgarh (19), Delhi (17), Haryana (1), Himachal Pradesh (5), Jammu & Kashmir (23), Jharkhand (6) Karnataka (22), Kerala (2), Madhya Pradesh (5), Maharashtra (5), Meghalaya (4), Nagaland (2), Punjab (1), Rajasthan (1), Tamilnadu (1), Telangana (1), Uttar Pradesh (maximum -110), Uttarakhand (10), West Bengal ( second highest 78), CISF (09), Civil Defence (2), CRPF (41), ITBP (7), MHA (1), NDRF (05), NIA (1), NSG (1), RPF (15), SPG (5) and SSB (39).

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