Naga woman CISF officer awarded President’s Medal for Meritorious Service
Dimapur, March 14 (MExN): DIG, CISF RTC Arakkonam, V Khamo was awarded the President’s Medal for Meritorious Service on CISF Raising Day on March 10.
The first Naga to join the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) as a gazetted officer, Vitsoneinuo Khamo joined the force in 1993 through Civil Service Examination 1991. She is presently serving as Deputy Inspector General, CISF RTC Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu CISF.
Competent and devoted officer
According to a press release, Khamo was the first CISF lady officer to be posted in a then mafia infested unit of BCCL, Dhanbad. Her professional competence and devotion to duty became evident during the initial days of her career where she earned commendation for her extremely bold and effective handling of the deadly mafia gangs in the Jharia Coal Fields, leading to successive recovery of stolen coal and copper wire worth crores of Rupees and high numbers of arrest of criminals during the 2-year stint at Dhanbad.
During this period, she earned laurels and received appreciations from all quarters including the local villages, the Management and CISF. During her tenure at Dhanbad, the newspapers (local and national) reported about her acts of bravery and effective containing of coal mafias. She served as a role model, for active and honest involvement never seen before.
Due of her brave and excellent professional executing skills, the FHQr sent her on induction posting to Inland Container Depot (ICD), Tughlakabad, Delhi. ICD Tughlakabad was known for its organized Crime Syndicates and hijacking of complete containers. She fearlessly handled and tackled the notorious criminal gangs and within a short span of a couple of months, exhibited extraordinary professional skills in planning, coordinating and executing an effective security system for ICD, for which, the Chief General Manager gave her a Commendation and further requested CISF Force Head Quarters for an extension of her tenure and she served a total of 4 years service there.
In June 2001, she was posted to Patna Airport on promotion and subsequently to Agra Airport where she established a full proof Airport security system and handled the airport security in a very effective manner. She was also praised for her efficient handling of Foreign Tourists and VVIP visits.
Also due to her sincerity, complete dedication, leadership and commitment to raising security standards, she was especially chosen by the Department to handle the security of Taj Mahal in the year 2004. In the 2 years that she was at Taj Mahal, she was highly appreciated by the local Population, District Authorities, ASI and the Department for tactful handling and flawless security arrangements during the visit of Foreign State dignitaries and State Heads.
She was appreciated for the high etiquettes and courteous behavior of CISF personnel in relation to the thousands of tourists visiting Taj Mahal on daily basis.
UN Assignment
In the year 2006, she was selected for a course at the Centre of Excellence for Stability Police units at Vicenza, Italy where she developed professional competence to operate and impart training programmes for UN Peace Keeping. In 2007-08, Vitsoneinuo Khamo was selected for UN assignment and served as Civ-Pol in Kosovo. Besides being awarded with UN Medal and Certification, she also won certificates of appreciation by the leader of US CIVPOL for her exemplary performance as Civ-Pol.
On her return to India she was posted to CISF Group HQrs, Saket, New Delhi, where she exhibited high level professional leadership in handling of the total 11 units under her. Subsequently she was posted to 5thRes.Bn, Ghaziabad where she had to shoulder a number of important responsibilities as second-in-command.
She was also responsible and instrumental in setting up the first Dog Training Centre of CISF at Ghaziabad. As Senior Commandant, she was posted to CISF Group HQr., Chennai where she successfully contained crime in 13 units under her and establish high standards of discipline. On completion of her tenure, she was posted to the CISF DAE, Kalpakkam.
Promotion to DIG
In March 2015, she was promoted as Dy Inspector General and posted to RTC(A) and also assigned the addl. charge of Dy. Inspector General, CISF NLC Neyveli. While posted as Principal, RTC(A), she made all out efforts in raising the standards of training to officers and men.
She has been nominated many times as the Chairperson of Sexual Harassment Committee by Seniors and conducted numerous enquiries while she was posted in Delhi based units and then continued after her posting to South in addition to her routine duties. In her twenty one years of service, because of consistent and tireless efforts to improve the working of the Force, she earned a number of appreciations/commendations from various authorities at National and International level.
DG Disc and Commendation Certificate
In 2014 she was awarded the DG Disc and Commend due to her outstanding and tireless performance. Over and above, she was decorated with DG Disc and Commendation certificate during February-2016 in recognition of her outstanding performance in coordination with Navy officials and mobilization of resources efficiently and promptly from CISF RTC (A) for the make shift arrangements to carry our frisking and checking of stranded passengers and their luggage at Naval Aerodrome, INS Rajali within a short span of time for a period of 5 days due to unprecedented rainfall and its consequent floods in Chennai and a crisis situation had developed at Chennai Airport which was declared non-operational.
