Meghalaya Police: Meghalaya government has constituted a Police Accountability Commission (PAC) to improve policing, work culture and also ensuring strict maintenance of discipline within the force..

SHILLONG: In the backdrop of reports of rising cases of corruption, dereliction of duty and highhandedness in the state police force, the Meghalaya government has constituted a Police Accountability Commission (PAC) to improve policing, work culture and also ensuring strict maintenance of discipline within the force. "We have set up a police accountability commission in accordance with Section 74 of the Meghalaya Police Act (MPA)," home minister HDR Lyngdoh told reporters here. On the role and function of the commission, Lyngdoh said, "The function and powers of the commission will be similar to that of a civil court enforcing trials and suits against any complaints against the department or its personnel." Headed by the home minister, the commission will have the chief secretary, home secretary and DGP as members. Apart from government officials, the commission will also have non-official members. "The government has decided to have three non-official members, whose selection will be based on transparency," the home minister said. He added that non-official members of the commission would comprise retired government officers not below the rank of a principal secretary or inspector general of police (IGP) and a person having 10 years' experience in public administration. Last year, in compliance with the Meghalaya Police Act, the state government had set up the State Security Commission headed by the chief minister. Welcoming the development, a retired police officer, who did not want to be named, said, "The police force in Meghalaya needs total overhauling. Most criminal cases in this state lead to nowhere and there are very few cases which ultimately get resolved."

Police Awards: HP Police: Shimla: हिमाचल पुलिस के पांच पुलिसकर्मी राष्ट्रपति पुलिस पदक से सम्मानित..

शिमला : गणतंत्र दिवस के मौके पर प्रदेश के पांच पुलिस अधिकारी व कर्मचारियों को राष्ट्रपति पुलिस पदक से सम्मानित किया गया। इस सूची में आइजी पुलिस होमगार्ड शिमला के आइपीएस अधिकारी शिव राम शर्मा को विशिष्ट सेवा के लिए पुलिस पदक से सम्मानित किया गया। धर्मशाला में तैनात डीएसपी स्टेट सीआइडी परस राम, सीआइडी यूनिट चंबा के इंस्पेक्टर भुवनेश कुमार, स्टेट सीआइडी शिमला के इंस्पेक्टर राकेश कुमार पठानिया और पीएसबी नगर जिला किन्नौर के हेड कांस्टेबल टेकचंद को उत्कृष्ठ सेवा के लिए पुलिस पदक से सम्मानित किया गया।

Police Awards: Maharastra Police: महाराष्ट्र पुलिस के राष्ट्रपति पुलिस पदक विजेताओं की सूची...

On the occasion of Republic Day, as many as nine policemen serving in various police establishments in Pune and one from Solapur have been nominated for the President’s Police Medal for distinguished service. Among them are additional director general of police and state CID chief Ashok Dhiware, deputy superintendent (DySP) Deepak Bhikoba Humbre, senior police inspectors Ganpat Vithoba Nikam, Manohar Joshi, inspectors Balraj Shivraj Lanjile, Dattatraya Dnyaoba Pawar, J S Pathan, sub-inspector Ramesh Vitthal Bhosale and assistant sub inspector Sitaram Babanrao Narke and DySP Milind Kalidas Patil from Solapur. Dhiware joined the Maharashtra Police Service as deputy superintendent in 1978. As inspector general (Nagpur range) he succeeded in collecting soft intelligence with the help of community policing Janjagran Abhiyan, which resulted in the arrest of 19 hardcore Naxalites, 116 associates and elimination of 26 Naxalites and surrendering of 40 Naxalties and 51 associates.

Humbre joined the state police as sub inspector in 1987. He is currently posted with the state CID, Pune. He has so far received 201 prizes and 29 certificates for crime detection and investigation skills. In his 25 years of service, he has also worked in Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad and arrested notorious criminals like Jagdish Shankar Yadav, besides solving serious crimes. Nikam is currently attached to the special branch of Pune city police. He joined the police force in 1977 as a constable. He has so far received 258 prizes and 38 certificates for crime detection and investigation. Joshi is currently posted at Deccan Gymkhana police station of city police. He joined the police force in 1984 as sub inspector. He worked in different parts of the state and has so far received 305 rizes. Pune police commissioner Meeran Borwankar gave him a reward of Rs 2,500 for recording the conversation between Shiv Sena leaders Neelam Gorhe and Milind Narvekar, allegedly about causing violence in the city during the bandh called on December 28, 2010.

Police Awards: Andaman & Nicobar Police: Cop who probed Jarawa dancing case gets Prez Police medal

Port Blair, Jan 26 (PTI) Superintendent of Police, South Andaman, S B S Tyagi, who led the team probing the episode of dancing of semi-naked Jarawa tribal women before tourists, has been awarded the President's Police Medal for meritorious service. Tyagi who had joined Delhi Police as Assitant Commissioner of Police in 1984, joined the Andaman and Nicobar Police as Commandant of Indian Reserve Police since 2009. He has been Superintendent of Police in South Andaman since 2010. He also served as a Deputy Commissioner of Police in Rashtrapati Bhavan as incharge of President's security during the tenures of A P J Abdul Kalam and Pratibha Patil.

After the video featuring the dancing jarawa women was posted on the website of a British daily, he was tasked to find the people responsible for videographing semi-naked jarawa women who were asked to dance in front of tourists in exchange for food. Within a fortnight after detailed investigations, South Andaman Police led by Tyagi nabbed two persons responsible for shooting the video and providing it to a UK-based journalist in return for a hefty amount.

Police Awards: JK Police: Srinagar: एसएसबी अकादमी श्रीनगर के सेनानायक (चिकित्सा) डॉ. पी मित्रा को भारतीय पुलिस पदक से सम्मानित...

श्रीनगर : एसएसबी अकादमी श्रीनगर के सेनानायक (चिकित्सा) डॉ. पी मित्रा को भारतीय पुलिस पदक से सम्मानित किया गया है। डॉ. मित्रा को केंद्रीय अ‌र्द्धसैनिक बल और सशस्त्र सीमा बल में उनकी 22 वर्षो की सर्वोत्तम सेवाओं के लिए राष्ट्रपति अनुमोदित भारतीय पुलिस पदक से नवाजा गया। पिछले पांच वर्षो से वह एसएसबी अकादमी श्रीनगर में सेनानायक (चिकित्सा) के पद पर कार्य कर रहे हैं।

इससे पूर्व डॉ. मित्रा सेक्टर मुख्यालय रानीखेत में वरिष्ठ चिकित्सा अधिकारी के पद पर कार्यरत रहे।

Police Awards: CG Police: छत्तीसगढ़ के पुलिस अधिकारी को राष्ट्रपति पुलिस मेडल मिलने पर उठी उंगलियां, एक स्कूल टीचर को माओवादी खबरी बताकर सताने का लगाया आरोप..

Gender and rights activists have protested against the Union government presenting a gallantry award to a Chhattisgarh cadre police officer who allegedly supervised the torture of Soni Sori, a school teacher accused of assisting the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). On Republic Day, the officer, Ankit Garg, was awarded the Police Medal for Gallantry for his role in an October 9, 2010 counterinsurgency operation, in which about 250 members of the State's Special Task Force and district police ambushed Maoist guerrillas in Mahasamund district. Six Maoists were killed and two civilians, including a deaf and mute manual labourer, died in controversial circumstances. The police maintained that the civilians were caught in the crossfire in the course of a fluid operation. Mr. Garg was subsequently appointed Superintendent of Police of Dantewada when Ms. Sori was arrested in October 2011 and accused of acting as a Maoist courier.

In a series of letters submitted to the Supreme Court, Ms. Sori says Mr. Garg verbally abused her and directed police personnel to torture her. She alleged that Mr. Garg watched as junior police personnel stripped her naked, administered electric shocks and assaulted her. According to her lawyers, a medical examination found two stones in Ms. Soni's genital tract and another in her rectum. “Is this, then, the gallant behaviour of our Dantewada police under the able guidance of SP Ankit Garg, which the government is now felicitating? Is this an award for ruthlessly torturing people? Does the government approve of these methods? Is this an accepted way of carrying out war against their own people in the name of anti-Naxal operations?” asks a press note circulated by Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression, a national network of women's and rights organisations. Mr. Garg has, however, categorically denied the allegations. “I can only say that the accusation has been made in the Supreme Court and the court has taken a decision on the 25th [of January]. More than two months have passed [since these allegations were first made.],” said Mr. Garg, who has subsequently been recalled to the police headquarters in Raipur.

“The final hearing is yet to begin,” said Colin Gonsalves, Ms. Sori's lawyer, disputing Mr. Garg's assertion that the court had come to a decision. Vishwa Ranjan, Director-General of Police (Home Guards), said: “The Police Medal for Gallantry is for a specific instance … it is not like the award for Meritorious Service … Ankit Garg led one of the teams in the Mahasamund [encounter].” He added the Soni Sori case was a separate issue that was now sub judice.

Police Awards: Delhi: राष्ट्रपति पुलिस मेडल्स को लेकर कंट्रोवर्सी, दागी पुलिस अफसरों को पदक मिलने का आरोप..

SOME officers, featuring in the list of bravehearts rewarded for showing exemplary dedication in the line of duty, have a shady past. One IPS officer from Chhattisgarh and two Jammu and Kashmir police officers are facing allegations of violation of the law in varying degrees. A Police Medal for gallantry was conferred upon Ankit Garg, a former superintendent of police at Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh, this Republic Day. Garg is facing a suit in the Supreme Court for torturing a tribal woman under custody. The woman, Soni Sori, was arrested on October 8, 2011 and was allegedly tormented on the charges of being a Maoist sympathiser.

Sori had approached the apex court, which had ordered the Chhattisgarh government in December 2011 to transfer Sori from Jagdalpur to Raipur Central Prison. Government sources, however, clarified that Garg has been awarded for gallantry against Maoists, which had nothing to do with Sori’s allegations. A medical examination had revealed the presence of stones in Sori’s private parts and rectum, which she alleges are the proof of the torture she had undergone in Garg’s custody. The case is still pending before the apex court. Women’s rights groups have expressed their dismay over the medal to Garg. “ By giving an award in the face of these complaints which have not even received a cursory investigation, both the Central and state governments are condoning this sexual violence which is being perpetrated in the name of anti- Naxal operations,” Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression ( WSS), a national network of women’s organisations, said in a statement on Thursday. Similar is the case of two Jammu and Kashmir police officers, chosen for the commendation cards by the army. The army on Wednesday announced gallantry awards to five officers, three of whom were chosen for the COAS Commendation Card. One among them — Altaf Ahmad Khan, the then SP Sopore — was transferred by the state government for a custodial death in the Sopore. The other, who was given the army commanders commendation card, Ashiq Hussain Tak, the then DSP of Sopore was also transferred in the same case.

The case pertains to Nazim Rashid in a Sopore police station in August 2011. Rashid, 25, used to run a grocery store in the Sopore town. He was arrested by the Special Operation Group of the J& K police. He died in custody with his body bearing marks of torture. While two policemen – Nisar Ahmad and Mohammad Abbas — were arrested in the case, Khan was transferred and Tak was attached. Chief minister Omar Abdullah had described the custodial death of Rashid as a “ gross human rights violation and inexcusable crime”. Soni Sori, a tribal woman, had alleged torture in custody.