Two senior IPS officers of the Odisha cadre, Santosh Kumar Upadhyay and Arun Kumar Ray, were awarded the President’s Police Medal for distinguished services on the occasion of the Independence Day on Thursday.
Similarly, IPS officers, Dhirendra Sambhaji Kuttey and Sanjay Kumar received the police medal for meritorious service from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here.
In this category, nine others who also received medals from the Chief Minister were Bijay Chandra Pradhan, Sukanta Acharya, Radhanath Mahapatra, Santosh Kumar Pattnaik, Sunil Kumar Senapati, Kailashnath Nayak, Sarbeswar Malla, Ratnakar Singh and Ratnakar Behera.
Names of these personnel were announced on the Republic Day this year.
Besides, the President’s correctional service medal for distinguished service were conferred on Cuttack Circle Assistant Jailor Nirmal Singh, Jajpur Road Sub Jail Jailer-cum-Superintendent Sunaram Singh and Puri district probation officer Pradeep Kumar Raj.
The personnel who were awarded the President’s Police Medal for gallantry are Brijesh Kumar Rai, Tapan Kumar Nayak, late Resham Bahadur Hamal Thakuri (posthumously), Ranjan Kumar Nayak and late Ranjan Khora (posthumously).