Special Police hog limelight at I-Day parade

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, AUG. 15. A blend of colour, gaiety and precision marked the ceremonial parade at the main Independence Day celebrations at the Secunderabad Parade Grounds on Wednesday.

Nineteen contingents of armed police, mounted police, home guards, all dressed in ceremonial outfits, and schoolchildren smartly marched past the dais as the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, took the salute.

Barring one contingent of the City Armed Reserve, it was a show of the A. P. Special Police all the way. Predictably, the 1st Battalion of APSP, Yousufguda, bagged the rolling shield for the best armed contingent while the A. P. Social Welfare Residential Education Institutes (APSWREI) Society, Hyderabad, won the shield in the unarmed category.

For the first time, the parade included a contingent of Junior Red Cross sporting white uniforms and red berets and a team of the newly-formed Green Brigade comprising students. Brass and pipe bands playing martial tunes formed the rear of the parade which was commanded by Mr. Sanjay Kumar Jain, Addl SP. A large number of students of the APSWREI Society later gave a colourful presentation of Bharatiyam.

They were followed by 16 tableaux of various State Government departments and its agencies. A panel of three judges awarded the first prize to the float of the Transport department which depicted the importance of pollution check-up of vehicles. The Joint Commissioner, Transport, Mr. C. L. N. Gandhi, received the prize from the Chief Minister. The tableaux of the Forest Department and Dairy Development bagged the second and third prizes respectively.

The Chief Minister also gave away police medals to the following: Messrs D. Seetharam Raju, Commandant, APSP, Kondapur, Iliyase Sait, Additional SP, Vigilance & Enforcement (V & E), Hyderabad, and K. Jayanthi Rao, Asst. Commandant, AP Police Academy, Hyderabad, (President's Police Medals for Distinguished Service -2000).

Messrs N. Sambasiva Rao, DIG, Hyderabad Ranga, Sudeep Lakhtakia, Addl, Director, ACB, Y. Sudhakar, CI, ACB, R. Dayanand, RI, Grey Hounds, R. Venkateswarlu, SI, Communications, Guntur, T. Narender Reddy, RI, Grey Hounds, (awarded posthumously to his wife, Mrs. Vinodini), A. Krishna Kumar, CI, Regional V & E office, Kurnool, Mohd. Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Head Constable, Hyderabad, G. Satyanarayana, Head Constable, APSP, Vizianagaram, V. Sudhakar Rao, Armed Reserve SI, APSP, and A. Easappa, Head Constable, APSP, Kondapur (Police Medal for Meritorious Service).

Messrs G. A. Rahim, retired IPS officer, G. Ramchandrayya, IGP, Communications, Hyderabad, and K. Jagannadha Rao, Addl. SP, APTRANSCO, Hyderabad (President's Police Medals for Distinguished Service - 2001).

V. Michael and V. Seshacharyulu, Platoon Commanders at Vijayawada, received the President's Home Guards Medal for Meritorious Service. Narayana Srinivas Reddy and Narayana Sudhakara Reddy, residents of Ravivariguda village in Nalgonda district received the Jeevan Raksha Padak for a meritorious act of human nature for the year 2000-01.

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