Honouring Merit & Valour

Twenty-one personnel of the Delhi Police, including Joint Commissioner S B K Singh and Additional Commissioner Ajay Chaudhary, have been awarded medals for distinguished and meritorious service on the eve of Independence Day.

Three Joint Commissioners — S B K Singh, Arvind Deep and D P Verma — were awarded the Police Medal for Distinguished Service. Eighteen others, including Additional Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Ajay Chaudhary, were awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Service.

Joint Commissioner Garima Bhatnagar, Addl Commissioners Anil Shukla and Jaspal Singh, Deputy Commissioners K K Vyas and O P Mishra were the others honoured with the Medal for Meritorious Service.

The others who won the Medals for Meritorious Service are Deputy Commissioner Raj Kumar Jha, Vijay Kumar and Sunita Sharma, sub-inspectors Gyan Chand, Bhopal Singh, Ravinder Pal Singh, Umed Singh and Mohan Ram Arya. Other winners are assistant sub-inspectors Satya Vir Singh, Ishwar Singh and Rajbir Singh.

SBK Singh

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime): He was selected for the medal for carrying out investigations relating to multi-level marketing, land developers and builder mafia. He also led the search operation after the helicopter carrying former Arunachal CM Dorjee Khandu went missing.

Arvind Deep

He won the Police (Special Duty) Medal and First Bar in 1999 for his services in Chandigarh during disturbed times. As Joint Commissioner of Police, he supervised the security arrangements for BRICS Summit 2012 in New Delhi. He is presently posted in Arunachal Pradesh.

D P Verma

He is the Joint Commissioner currently in charge of the Prime Minister's security. During his posting as DCP (Traffic), he managed traffic arrangements for the visit of the then US President George Bush, SAARC meet and the Queen's baton relay.

Jaspal Singh

He was the Additional DCP of Northeast and Southwest districts and also worked as SP, Goa. His most challenging assignment came when he was appointed as SP (Nicobar) in the aftermath of the Tsunami which hit the Eastern coast in 2004. He organised massive relief operations and handled the disposal of a large number of bodies. For his exemplary efforts, he was awarded the Commendation Certificate — the highest civilian award in 2005. Singh also pioneered the idea of setting up of Mobile Tracing Cell in the Northeast district, which was later replicated in other areas. He successfully handled the arrangements for the Commonwealth Games.

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