Gallantry Awards (police), India

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Gallantry medals

2017: J&K police gets the highest number

J&K cops bag maximum number of gallantry awards , Jan 25, 2017: The Times of India

J&K police walked away with the highest number of police medals for gallantry in 2017, with its personnel bagging 32 of the total 100 awards announced.

While all state police together bagged 78 gallantry medals, 22 gallantry medals went to the central forces, of which CRPF alone accounted for 16. Interestingly, constables and head constables walked away with 55% of the gallantry medals, but the list featured just one IPS officer.

Ten gallantry awards were conferred posthumously , of which four went to Chattisgarh police, two to Jharkhand police and one each to Assam police, CRPF, BSF and SSB. As many as 777 police medals were announced, including 100 police gallantry medals, 597 police medals for meritorious service and 80 President's police medal for distinguished service.

Manipur cop P Sanjoy Singh has won a gallantry award for the eighth time in his career, for a commando operation undertaken in January 2015, that resulted in neutralisation of two insurgents. IPS officer from Assam, Sunil Kumar, is the only bureaucrat to be awarded a gallantry medal this year. He led an operation that led to killing of four NDFB cadres in Kokrajhar in 2014. J&K police officer Nazir Ahmad Kuchey , who has won twin gallantry medals this year. He was involved in killing a dreaded militant in Pulwama in 2014 and a 2015 encounter that resulted in neutralisation of two terrorists in Pulwama.

Of the 78 state cops honoured for gallantry , 32 belong to J&K, 12 to Andhra Pradesh, nine to Jharkhand and seven each to UP and Chhattisgarh.Of gallantry medals won by the Central forces, CRPF has 16, BSF five and one for SSB.

The stress on recognising the competence of lower level police officers is evident from the fact that 55% of the gallantry medals, 62.8% of police medals for meritorious service and 25% of President's police medals for distinguished service went to constables or head-constables.