President honour for 22 police personnel

BANGALORE: Twenty-two police personnel have been chosen for the President’s medal.
The awards include two gallantry medals, two distinguished service medals and 18 meritorious medals. IG (Intelligence) Gopal B Hosur and Banaswadi inspector T Rangappa have been chosen for gallantry medals, while additional commissioner (CID) S Megharikh and Bellary DySP CG Kyathan have been honoured for distinguished service.
KSN Chikkerur, ADGP, DCRE; SPs D Prakash (B’lore Rural) and B Mahantesh (Intelligence, Gulbarga); Chamarajpet ACP MS Hussain; DySPs MK Muralli (forest cell), Mohan Rao (CID), Mahesh L Naik (Intelligence, Karwar), B Sachidanand (Wireless) and P Harishchandra, (Mangalore); inspectors Siddamallappa (City Market traffic), VPM Swamy (CID), Prabhakar Barki (Mysore), MP Jayamurthi (Mysore) and N Mallappa (Shimoga); reserve inspector P Venkatesh (B’lore), ASIs VS Javoor (Gadag), Vithal Rao M Desai (Kartogi, Koppal) and head constable MN Tadasi (Dharwad) have been chosen for merit medals. TNN