THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The government has announced the president’s medal for the year 2020. From Kerala ten policemen have been selected for the medals. They include Sindhya Pincker (Central Intelligence deparment) and Additional SP T V Joy (CBI Kochi unit). In 2011 also, Joy had got the president’s medal. Sathyam Computer case, Telgi fake stamp paper case, railway recruitment briber case, Bellary illegal mining case and Vyapam graft were investigated by him.

Other winners are Thrissur police Akademy Assitant director K Manoj Kumar, India Research Battalions deputy commandant C V Pappachan, Pathanamthitta CBCID DySP Madhusoodanan, Changanassery DySP S Suresh Kumar, Kottayam Vigilance DySP N Rajan, Kannur Traffic K Manoj Kumar, Thrissur Reserve Battalion Assistant Commandant L Solaman, Crime Branch Asst SI P Ragesh and Thrissur District Crime Branch Asst SI K Santhosh Kumar.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police has been given the maximum number of gallantry honours with 108 medals, followed by the CRPF 76, on the occasion of the 71st Republic Day, according to an official order on Saturday.

The Union Territory police, thickly involved in counter-terrorism operations in the Kashmir Valley, has also bagged three top President's Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) while one has been accorded to the CRPF (posthumously), a Union home ministry order said.

A total of 105 Police Medals for Gallantry (PMG) and three PPMG have been given to the JKP followed by 75 PMG to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) that is also deployed in the UT for counter-terror duties.

Jharkhand Police has been given 33 PMG. The medals are declared biannually on the eve of Republic Day and Independence Day.