President's awards for state cops

Bangalore: Thirty four Karnataka State Police officials have been awarded the President's Medals for the year 2009 for distinguished and meritorious service.
IGP and Karnataka State Police Housing Corporation executive director Prem Shankar Meena, CoD IGP M N Reddi and deputy SP (Intelligence) M G Nagendra Kumar have been awarded for distinguished service.Meritorious medals have been awarded to National Welfare AIDS Control Organisation's national consultant S K Mohammed, KSRTC DIG (Security and Vigilance) M A Saleem, DIG (Training) K S R Charan Reddy, DIG (KSRP) K Ramachandra Rao, DIG (Economic Offences, CoD) Malini Krishnamoorthy, CoD SP K P Bheemaiah, APTS Yelahanka principal Krishnaraddi D Malligawad, DCP (Intelligence, Bangalore) B A Muthanna, ACP (Audugodi Traffic, Bangalore) B Lokesh, ACP (CAR-North, Bangalore) Dasappa Thimmaiah, SP (Intelligence, Shimoga) B K Nanje Gowda, SI (Forest Cell, Bangalore) Raju Venkategowda, head constable (Intelligence, Bangalore) K N Murthy, head constable (Intelligence, Bangalore) Suresh Kumar Srinivasamurthy, head constable (KSRP, Shimoga) Narayana Shetty and AHC (DAR, Belgaum) Shamu Dundappa Hegre.
Home Guards and Civil Defence awards:
B R Kandhagal, deputy commandant (Home Guards, Dharwad): distinguished service.
Meritorious awardees
N B Inangal, commandant (Home Guards, Bagalkot)
Somashekar S Bevinamarad, commandant, (Home Guards, Haveri)
N Thiruvengadum, senior divisional commander, (Home Guards, KGF)
M Mariyanna, staff officer (Home Guards, Bangalore)
Krishna Jettappa Naik, staff officer (Home Guards, Belgaum)
S Anantharam Setty, staff officer (Home Guards, Davangere)
Devadas Shetty, platoon commander (Home Guards, Dakshin Kannada)
Sadashivaiah, platoon commander (Home Guards, Tumkur)
V N Bhat, section leader (Home Guards, Uttara Kannada)
Kaber Singh, section leader (Home Guards, Mandya)
C N Mallesh Gowda, platoon commander (Home Guards, Hassan)
Rajakumar Masimade, platoon commander (Home Guards, Bidar)
P A Nagaraja Rao, instructor (Home Guards and Civil Defence Headquarters, Bangalore)
A Purushothama Rao, instructor (Home Guards and Civil Defence Headquarters, Bangalore)