Our Correspondent
Kohima | October 21
Nagaland today joined the Nation in observing Police Commemoration Day by conducting a ceremonial parade at New Police Reserve Phesama and paid tribute to police personnel who laid their lives on duty during the year.
Nagaland Deputy Chief Minister, Home & National Highways, Y Patton; Food & Civil Supplies, Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection and NSDMA Advisor Pukhayi; Director General of Police (DGP) Nagaland T John Longkumer and several police officers laid wreath at the cenotaph and paid respect to the 424 police personnel who had sacrificed their lives for the security and safety of the country during the period from September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2018.
Longkumer said that police commemoration day is observed on October 21 every year to mark the martyrdom of policemen killed in Ladakh in 1959 and to pay tribute to all other police personnel killed on duty during the year.
DGP said the annual conference of Inspector General of Police of States and Union Territories held in January 1960 decided that October 21 would be observed as commemoration day in all the police lines throughout India to make the memory of these gallant men who were killed in Ladakh and other police personnel killed on duty during the year.
He also said a memorial act at Hot Springs was decided to erect and every year, members of police forces from different parts of the country trek to Hot Springs to pay homage to those gallant martyrs.
