Shivamogga Deputy Commissioner V.P. Ikkeri on Wednesday urged the civil society to come together in condemning the killing of police sub-inspector G. Jagadish by a group of vehicle-lifters at Nelamangala, near Bengaluru, recently.
Mr. Ikkeri was speaking at a function to mark the Police Martyrs’ Day here.The incident exposed the risks that the police personnel faced while discharging their duties. Police personnel, though, forsake their personal comforts for ensuring peace and order in society, wrong notions were prevailing among a section of society towards them. Services rendered by police personnel should be recognised and appreciated, he said.
Addressing the gathering, Superintendent of Police Ravi Channannanavar said that even when police personnel resort to caning or use weapons to avoid damage to public property and for self-protection, they were facing criticism from many quarters. This tendency had made the police personnel hesitate while dealing sternly with criminal elements, he said.
Mr. Channannanavar stressed the need to strengthen social security net for retired police personnel and to provide adequate financial support to the family members of police personnel, who sacrifice their lives while discharging their duties.K.B. Prasanna Kumar, Shivamogga MLA, and B. Ramu, Chief Executive Officer of the zilla panchayat, were present.
In Hassan
Tributes were paid to policemen, who had sacrificed their lives while discharging their duties, at a function to mark the Police Martyrs’ Day at DAR Grounds here on Wednesday. Deputy Commissioner Umesh H. Kusugal, Superintendent of Police Raman Gupta and Chief Executive Officer of the zilla panchayat R. Venkatesh Kumar paid homage to 434 policemen, including 11 from the State.The programme is organised every year to pay homage to policemen, who became victims of the ambush by Chinese forces at Ladakh in 1959.Mr. Kusugal, in his address, said people of the country were living in peace because of policemen, who work throughout the day.
In Mandya
Tributes were paid to policemen at the Police Martyrs’ Day function here on Wednesday. M.N. Ajay Nagabhushan, Deputy Commissioner of Mandya; Bhushan Gulabrao Borase, Superintendent of Police and senior officials laid wreaths and observed a two-minute silence at the Parade Grounds, off Mandya-Bannur Road, here.
Mr. Borase read out the names of 434 officers, including 11 from Karnataka, who lost their lives while doing duty, between September 1, 2014 and August 31, 2015.
