Governor Bl Joshi showed his deep concern over deteriorating image of the Police Department. He called the officers to take stern measures against those spoiling the image of the `Khakhi’.
``It was just few bad elements who spoil the image of the entire Police Department so the need of the hour is to take stern action against such evil forces", called Governor Bl Joshi, while showing his concern over deteriorating image of the Department. He was addressing to the police personnel soon after rewarding presidents police medal for bravery and distinguished services here on Tuesday afternoon.
``You should identify the cops who were indulged in criminal or corrupt practices and later they should be dealt with tough hands and if necessary they should be removed from the Department", claimed Joshi while saying that until a message has been passed on to the public that government is serious to deal with anti-social and criminal elements within the department till then the image of the Police force could not be improved.
``Just like a doctor diagnose and removed the portion of the body which could affect the whole system, the bad elements of the Police Department should be also identified and removed", added Joshi. He said that he knows that how badly it hurts to a police personnel who work in adverse condition and even risk their lives but at the end of day they get bad name just due to wrong doing of few hand pick police personnel. Joshi said that the cops should change their behaviour and they should be always polite and ready to solve the problems particularly faced by weaker and down-trodden section of the society along with that of members of fairer sex.
Earlier governor handed over Presidents Police Gallantry Medial for bravery to 65 officers who get the above honour since 2009 till last year. One of the officer, AK Raghav did not turned up to receive the medal as he was unwell while three officers who get the rewards posthumously, their widows received the medal by Governor. He also gave Presidents medal for Distinguished Services to 32 officers while half a dozen others who get the honour did not turned up. Director General of Police, Rizwan Ahmed, and other senior officers were present during the function.
The prominent who get the gallantry reward for bravery are SP Vijay Bhushan, inspector Girja Shankar Tripathi, and sub-inspector Vijay Pratap Singh (for killing a hardened criminal carrying a cash reward of Rs 1.5 lakh and his aide in Varanasi in 2010), Additional SP, Dr Arvind Chaturvedi and inspector PK Mishra (for encounter of dreaded criminal Kripa Shankar aka Doctor in Malad locality of Mumbai in 2006), Shaheb Rasheed Khan (for killing two criminals and rescuing a kidnapped boy from Ramanagar locality of Barabanki in 2009), SP Deepak Singh and inspector Samarjeet Singh (For killing two hardened criminals when they struck to loot case from ICICI bank in Ghaziabad in 2008).