MHA Awards 2022: 151 Police Personnel Honoured With Medal For Excellence — Check Details

Out of the total awards, 15 are from CBI, 11 from Maharashtra Police, 10 each from MP Police and UP Police, eight each from Kerala Police, Rajasthan Police and West Bengal Police among others

MHA Awards 2022 Winners Full List

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MHA Awards 2022: Around 151 police personnel have been awarded the 'Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation' for 2022. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs released the 2022 list of awardees for the 'Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation'. The list of awardees across the country is announced on August 12 every year.  

Out of the total personnel receiving these awards, 15 are from CBI, 11 are from Maharashtra Police, 10 each from MP Police and UP Police, eight each from Kerala Police, Rajasthan Police and West Bengal Police and the remaining from other states and union territories. The list also includes 28 women police officers as well.

The list of awardees to be honoured includes four from Assam, seven from Bihar, three from Chhattisgarh, six from Gujarat, four from Haryana, two from Jharkhand, and one from Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Nagaland each. Six from Karnataka, four from Punjab, five each from Telangana and Tamil Nadu and six from Delhi.

One each from Puducherry, Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu have also won the medal. It also includes five each from NIA and NSB as well.  

Established in 2018, this honour aimed to encourage high standards in crime investigations and recognise the "Excellence in Investigation" delivered by police personnel in their work.

In 2021, around 152 police personnel were awarded the 'Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation'.

The process to select the awardees began after the MHA directed all the chiefs of states and the Union Territories (UTs) police forces and central investigation agencies to recommend candidates for the award of “Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation” in 2022 by April 30.

The recommendations of eligible officials of the rank ranging from Head Constable to Superintendent of Police were asked to be submitted online.

In fact, it was stressed that “adequate representation of women nominees be given while forwarding the recommendation as described in the SOP and that only twice numbers of nominees can be recommended against the allocated number of medals.”

Check Entire List  — Union Home Minister’s Medal For Excellence In Investigation For The Year 2022