20 police officers from Tamil Nadu to get President’s medal

TNN / Updated: Jan 26, 2022, 19:55 IST

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At least 20 police officers, including IPS officers G Venkatraman, V Balakrishnan and R Sudhakar will be awarded with the President’s medal for their distinguished and meritorious services in the uniformed services in Tamil Nadu.

20 police officers from Tamil Nadu to get President’s medal

G Venkatraman (left) and V Balakrishnan are among the officers who will be awarded

CHENNAI: At least 20 police officers, including IPS officers G Venkatraman, V Balakrishnan and R Sudhakar will be awarded with the President’s medal for their distinguished and meritorious services in the uniformed services in Tamil Nadu.
Additional director-general of police (ADGP) of headquarters Venkataraman headed the newly created cyber crime unit of the state and formed cyber crime police stations in every district headquarters. Inspector general of police (IGP) Sudhakar, after taking charge as the west zone head, sped up the investigation in the Kodanad heist-cum-murder case and assisted in apprehending AIADMK former state minister Rajenthra Bhalaji, who had been absconding for more than a month.

R Sudhakar, IPS and (R) Pradip Kumar, IPS

The medals are given during Republic Day and Independence Day celebrations acknowledging overall work.

The others selected are inspector, special branch CID of Thanjavur, C Sivanarul, IGP of Trichy V Balakrishnan, IGP of west zone R Sudhakar, Coimbatore city police commissioner Pradip Kumar, Tirunelveli superintendent of police (SP) P Saravanan, SP of ‘Q’ branch P Kannammal, deputy commissioner of police of Chennai city traffic planning cell V K Surendranath, special police XII battalion and commandant of Manimuthar D Karthikeyan.

V K Surendranath and (R) P Kannammal, IPS

Additional deputy commissioner of police (ADDL DCP) of Chennai city traffic planning cell V Elangovan, ADDL SP of NIBCID A Thomas Prabhakar, Coimbatore city intelligence wing assistant commissioner of police S Murugavel, deputy superintendent of police of CB-CID of organised crime unit in Coimbatore M Muralitharan, central crime branch inspector K Murugesan will be lauded.
The others selected for the honour are ‘Q’ branch inspector K Anna Durai, DVAC inspector of Cuddalore D Shanmugam, task force sub-inspector of police (SI) G Sivaganesan, special intelligence unit SI of Trichy R Ganesan, SB-CID SI headquarters R Pasupathi.

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