Overview

• At the President’s Medal Investiture at Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru, officers received the President’s Distinguished Service Medal, President’s Commendable Service Medal, and the Union Home Minister’s Medal.
• Chief Minister Siddaramaiah urged the force to prevent caste-based discrimination and measure performance by crimes averted rather than tallies of cases handled.
• Siddaramaiah flagged low conviction rates in atrocity cases and called the functioning of district-level DCRE police stations unsatisfactory, urging immediate improvement.
• Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot praised Karnataka Police for courage and discipline and pressed for expanded use of technology to counter emerging threats such as cybercrime.
• Dignitaries included Home Minister G. Parameshwara and DG&IGP M. A. Saleem, with awardees such as ADGP R. Hitendra, ADGP K. V. Sharath Chandra, Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh, ADGP S. Murugan, and IGP B. R. Ravikante Gowda.