Santosh Kumar Singh, the Superintendent of Police in Chhattisgarh's Korea district, has been selected for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) award by an organization in the United States, it was announced on Thursday.
Singh has been selected for '40 Under 40 Award', which is given to 40 senior policemen across the world under 40 years of age. This award is given for better leadership qualities and efforts to bring about changes with innovative approaches.
Two police officials from India have been selected for this year’s award. The second officer is Amit Kumar, an Indian Police Service officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
The IACP will felicitate them in September at Texas.
Singh had worked in Naxalite-infested Bastar region by adapting community policing. He is also known to have imparted training in self defense to over one lakh children in Mahasamund district.