On Police Commemoration Day, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will pay homage to martyred police personnel in a state level function to be organized at Police Lines in Panchkula on October 21.
A Haryana Police spokesperson said ACS Home Rajeev Arora, Director General of Police, Manoj Yadava and other senior police officers, besides family members of brave hearts will also present on this occasion.
As many as 264 police personnel including two from Haryana Police attained martyrdom during discharge of their duties in the country in the last one year.
So far, in total about 35000 police personnel have sacrificed their lives to maintain peace and security in the country, he added.
Observed on October 21 every year, the Police Commemoration Day remembers the sacrifices of ten policemen who died in Chinese firing in 1959 at ‘Hot Springs’ at Ladakh.