Police Commemoration Day observed at PAP in Jalandhar

Jalandhar, October 21 : The 58th Police Commemoration Day was observed at the Punjab Armed Police grounds here on Saturday. DGP Suresh Arora laid the wreath at the martyrs’ memorial erected inside the PAP campus here. Following this, the names of all 383 martyrs from the police and paramilitary forces of 2017 were read out by Rajpal Sandhu, Commandant, In Service Training centre, PAP. While addressing the martyrs’ families and the officials present on the occasion, Arora said that since 1981, 2,719 police personnel had laid down their lives in various anti-terrorism and other operations in Punjab.
He urged the officials who had joined the department recently to put the concern of the martyrs’ families at the top.
While applauding Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s concern for these families, Arora said the Punjab government had restored the special family pension of the terrorist-affected families and the red-card facilities to them.
He said the police department would leave no stone unturned to maintain law and order in the state.
The day commemorates the sacrifices of the 10 policemen who were martyred while defending India’s border with China in 1959. Police personnel were responsible for manning the 2,500-mile-long border of India with Tibet until the autumn of 1959.