Mangaluru, August 15, 2020: K Jayaprakash, Sub-Inspector in the Wireless unit of Control Room of Mangaluru Police Commissionerate limits has been chosen for the 2019-20 Presidential Police Award.
Jayaprakash has been chosen for the Award in recognition of his distinguished service in the wireless unit of the City Police Control Room during natural calamities and untoward incidents. He is the only police officer from the district chosen for this coveted award this year.
Total of 19 police officers from the state will be conferred with the President’s Police medals. While 18 of them, including eight DySPs, two police inspectors and three PSIs, will be awarded the President’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service, V L N Prasanna Kumar, the ASI attached with CID, Bengaluru, will get the President’s Medal for Distinguished Service.
List of awardees (Meritorious Service)
R Hemanth Kumar (DySP-SIT Lokayukta); Parameshwar Hegde (DySP- Economic Offences, CID); Manjunath Rajanna (DySP-ACB, Mandya); H M Shailendra (DySP-Somwarpet sub-division); Arun Nagegowda (DySP-Srirangapatna sub-division); H M Sathish (ACP-Traffic North, Bengaluru); H B Ramesh Kumar (DySP-State Intelligence); P Umesh (DySP-Police Training School, Mysuru); C N Diwakara (CPI-Madikeri Rural); G N Rudresh (RPI, KSRP); Lakshminarayan B A (SI-Special Branch, Bengaluru); M H Chandrashekar (RSI-KSRP, Bengaluru); K Jayaprakash (SI-Wireless, M’luru City Control Room); H Nanjundaiah (ASI-DCRB CB’Pur); Ateeq-ur-Rahman (ASI-Agumbe, Shivamogga); Ramanjanaiah (ASI-KB Cross,, Tumakuru); R N Balikai (ASI-Ranebennur Rural) and K Honnappa (head constable-Bengaluru.