Bengaluru: As many as 19 police officers from the State will be conferred the President’s police medal for their services in New Delhi by President Pranab Mukherjee during the Independence Day celebration.

Officers including A S N Murthy, IGP-Internal security division, Bengaluru, and Vijaya Kumar G Dambal, Additional SP Ballari district will receive the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service. Seventeen others will also receive the Police Medal for Meritorious Service from the honourable president.

A statement from the DG&IGP’s office was as follows:

“The following will be conferred police medals: M N Nagaraj, Superintendent of Police, Bagalakot district; Manjunath Annigeri, Superintendent of Police, SIT, Karnataka Lokayukta, Bengaluru; S Badrinath, ACP, K R Puram sub-division, Bengaluru; Vinay A Gaonkar, ACP, Cubbon Park sub-division, Bengaluru; V Mariyappa, ACP, Traffic, South sub-division, Bengaluru; Somalingappa B Chabbi, ACP North sub-division, Hubballi; Inspector C A Siddalingaiah, Lokayukta, Kolar; Inspector M Shantharaj (Wireless), Central Workshop, HQ, Bengaluru; Inspector Pramod S Dhage (Wireless), District Control Room, Bengaluru Rural; Inspector Sreedhar Doddi, Hosapete Town, Ballari Dist; sub-inspector K S Praneshmurthy, State Intelligence, Bengaluru; assistant sub-inspector P Nagaraj, Gandasi, Hassan district; sub-inspector T L Mudduraju Urs, DAR, Chikkamagaluru; C K Padmanabha, ASI, District Crime Branch, Chikkamagaluru; SI A M Palangappa, Armed Reserve, 3rd Bn, KSRP, Bengaluru; Head Constable-25 K E Mathew, DAR, Shivamogga; Head Constable-65 C Hiriyannaiah, DAR, Chikkamagaluru.