Kolkata: West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will award police medals to 10 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers on the occasion of the country’s 75th Independence Day on Sunday.
The Governor will felicitate three IPS officers with the Chief Minister’s Police Medal for Outstanding Service and seven IPS officers with the Chief Minister’s Police Medal for Commendable Service.
READ: Nitish Kumar Eyes Young Voters, Says 'Youth Are Victims Of Misunderstanding, Need To Be Informed'
The awardees for the Chief Minister’s Police Medal for Outstanding Service include Kolkata Police Commissioner Soumen Mitra, Additional Director-General of Police (Correctional Services) Peeyush Pandey and Inspector General of Police (North Bengal) D.P. Singh.
The seven IPS officers to be awarded with the Chief Minister’s Police Medal for Commendable Service include Inspector General of Police (CID) Anand Kumar, Kolkata Joint Commissioner of Police Syed Wakar Raza, Sunderbans Superintendent of Police Bhaskar Mukherjee, Coochbehar Superintendent of Police Sumit Kumar, Purba Medinipur Superintendent of Police Amarnath K, Paschim Medinipur Superintendent of Police Dinesh Kumar and Kolkata Police’s Special Task Force (STF) Deputy Commissioner of Police Aparajita Rai.
These names will also be published in the West Bengal Police Gazette and the Kolkata Police Gazette.
ALSO READ: Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia Claims Centre Did Not Seek Report On Deaths Caused By Oxygen Shortage
The two police medal awards have been introduced to the IPS and non-IPS officers of the West Bengal cadre.
Soumen Mitra was made the Kolkata Police commissioner a second time in the run-up to the 2021 Assembly polls, after the Election Commission removed the then city police chief, Anuj Sharma.
Mitra had been transferred to CID as ADG in 2016.