Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the refurbished national police memorial, including a newly built national police museum on Sunday. Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the top brass of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), central security agencies and State police units will be in attendance during the event on October 21 at the memorial based in Central Delhi's Chanakyapuri area.
"The day is observed to pay homage to ten policemen killed in an ambush by Chinese troops in 1959 in Ladakh's Hot Spring area. Numerous other personnel who laid down their lives protecting India's unity and integrity are also remembered on the occasion," CRPF Director General RR Bhatnagar said.
Elaborate arrangements have been made for the event and the family of at least one personnel killed in the line of action from each force and police unit has been invited for the ceremony, officials added. The memorial has been refurbished and the central structure has been enhanced, they said. A large stone engraved in a raised platform has been erected at the memorial few years back at the same location.
The PM, during the event, will also unveil the country's first national police museum. The museum - depicting the history, artifacts, uniform and gear of central and state police forces - is coming up as an underground facility in the premises of the national police memorial. The museum project is being steered by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in coordination with the central armed police forces (CAPFs) that function under the command of the Union Home Ministry.