152 cops awarded HM’s medal for excellence in investigation

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 12

The government today announced the list of 152 police officers who have been conferred the “Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation” for 2021 for their high professional standards in investigating crime.

Announcing the awards, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the awardees include 28 women police officials from across the country. This medal was constituted in 2018 with the objective to promote high professional standards of investigation of crime and to recognise such excellence in investigation by investigating officers.

Among the personnel receiving these awards, 15 are from the CBI, 11 each from Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra Police, 10 from Uttar Pradesh, nine from Kerala and Rajasthan, eight from Tamil Nadu, seven from Bihar, six each from Gujarat, Karnataka and Delhi Police.

Five police officers are from Telangana, four each from Assam, Haryana, Odisha and West Bengal, while the remaining are from other states and UTs, the statement said.

Among those from the CBI include Additional SP Vijay Kumar Shukla, Deputy SPs Sham Datt, Kaushal Kishore Singh, Rajender Singh Gosain, Ananda Krishanan TP, Atul Hajela, Maharshi Ray Hajong, Ashutosh Kumar and Inspectors Sardar Singh Chauhan, Ravinder Kumar, A Bama, Rakesh Kumar Srivastava, Deepak, Pachaiammal Sampath Kumar and Tarun Gaur.