Police martyrs’ week begins today

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, October 14

As many as 121 policemen from Amritsar have attained martyrdom in the past especially during heydays of terrorism in Punjab.

In order to pay rich tributes and remembering police martyrs, the Punjab police have been observing martyrs week from October 15.

The city police have planned various programmes. Police Commissioner Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill in a statement issued here today informed that in order to aware the students and children about the supreme sacrifices of the policemen, the police department would organise debates, essay competitions and quiz programmes in schools and colleges.

“The main motive behind this was to tell the young generation about the supreme sacrifices made by the cops to bring peace during militancy in Punjab. We want to encourage and motivate them so that no anti-national forces could raise their heads in the state again,” said Dr Gill.

Besides, the police would organise road shows, poster and painting competition and holding ‘Nukkar Nataks’ at public places. He said in police commissionerate around 120 cops in the ranks of inspectors, sub-inspectors, assistant sub-inspectors, head constables and constables besides gazetted officers had laid down their lives in the line of duty.

He said October 21 is celebrated as martyrs’ day in all over country by police department and paramilitary forces when they pay tributes to their martyrs.