It was a grand investiture ceremony of Kolkata police where both police personnel and civilians were awarded for their outstanding act of bravery, extra-ordinary courage and integrity for serving the society and people and of course exemplary dedication to make the city a better place to live in. The awardees included the Mayor of Kolkata, Sovan Chatterjee, who on August 24, 2011, rescued an injured teenager from the road and saved her life by organizing timely medical intervention at a hospital.

But the ceremony was taken to a different height when the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee gave away awards to 66 youths of Panchanantala at Dhakuria who did not think twice to risk them lives and jumped into the rescue operation alongside the disaster-management group of Kolkata Police to save lives of hapless trapped patients inside the ill-fated AMRI Hospital on December 9, 2011.

At the ceremony, the chief minister announced that jobs would be given in the Green Police unit to these youths. Giving away awards to each of the 66 youths, the Chief Minister said “We have decided to offer them jobs as Green Police if they want.” The civic police volunteers, known as Green Police, assist the Kolkata Police in traffic management and crowd-controlling. Of the 66 youths who were awarded for their bravery, two could not be present as they were undergoing treatment in hospital after falling ill from inhaling the smoke.

The Chief Minister also congratulated the Kolkata Police commandos and disaster management group personnel for rescuing a number of patients from the hospital. It was a long journey since 1856 when the modern police force was born under the leadership of Sir Samuel Wauchope, the first commissioner of police to current commissioner of police Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda. The colourful ceremony was enlivened by the march past of different divisions and wings of Kolkata Police.

The Kolkata Police also rewarded those unsung heroes who silently do their best to help a fellow citizen by going out of their way, rescue a person from the danger, save lives by taking the person-in-distress to hospital or to police station. Keshar Kamal Gupta was one such person who sacrificed his life to rescue a mother and her three-year-old baby from electrocution in water-logged street, or Sheikh Moinuddin who caught an armed snatcher who was fleeing after snatching a gold-chain, or Karu Yadav, a cabbie, who deposited cash Rs 2.5 lakh left behind by a commuter, to police station.

Besides, Central Division of the city police was declared as the best division, the 3rd Battalion of Armed Police Force was declared as the best Armed Police Force, Amherst Street police station was announced as the best police station in the city and Shyam Bazar traffic guard was declared as the best Traffic Guard.

48 police personnel were given away awards.
NISHTA PADAK was awarded to -

Anil Kar, Assistant Commissioner, Detective Department
Ajay Adhikary, Inspector, Headquarters Force
Mohammed Nurul Anwar, Inspector, South Division

20 police personnel were given away
PRASHONGSHA PADAK

Zakir Hossain, Assistant Commissioner, Traffic DepartmentSukumar Chakraborty, Inspector

Namroz Ahmed Khan, Inspector, South Division
Balai Kumar Nath, Inspector, Detective Department
Sushanta Dhar, Inspector, Special Task Force
Amit Kumar Nath, Inspector, Traffic Department
Satijiban Nath, Assistant Commissioner, Traffic Department
Barinder Singh Kabrewal, Inspector, Special Task Force
Sukriti Kumar Poddar, Inspector, Kolkata Armed Police
Pabitra Kumar Mukherjee, Inspector, Special Branch
Sadhan Kr Ghosh, Sub Inspector, Enforcement Branch
Amit Sengupta, Sub Inspector, South Division
Sk Qutubuddin, Sergeant, Special Task Force
Sacchidanand Sarkar, Subedar, 2nd Battalion, K.A.P
Shib Ranjan Sinha, Sub Inspector, South Division
Paritosh Kumar Mishra, Assistant Sub Inspector, 7th Battalion, K.A.P
Rezaul Haque , Assistant Sub Inspector, Central Division
Jitendra Nath Panda, Constable, Central Division
Anilbaran Poti, Constable, Central Division
Subodh Ranjan Ganguly, Constable, Central Division

SEBA PADAK

Prosenjit Som, Inspector, Traffic Department
Priya Das, Lady Inspector, Head Quarter Force
Debasish Ghosh, Inspector, Traffic Department
Biplab Kumar Singha, Inspector, Traffic Department
Gautam Kr Das, Inspector, Special Task Force
Supratik Bandyopadhyay, Sub Inspector, Detective Department
Ramal Kanti Saha, Sub Inspector, Special Branch
Subarna Dutta Chowdhury, Sub Inspector, North Division
Nil Kantha Roy, Sub Inspector, Detective Department
Monoj Dutta, Sub Inspector, Special Task Force
Soumn Bandyopadhyaya, Sub Inspector, Special Task Force
Amarendra Saha, Sergeant, Traffic Department
Prasanta Heto, Sergeant, Special Task Force
Barun Kr. Chowdhury, Sergeant, Special Task Force
Subhash Biswas, Assistant Sub Inspector, Enforcement Branch
Gabriel Soren, Assistant Sub Inspector, Special Branch
Pachugopal Mukherjee, Assistant Sub Inspector, 2nd Battalion, K.A.P
Subhro Majumdar, Constable, Reserve Force
Bibhuti Bhushan Sarkar, Constable, Reserve Force
Narayan Ch Chakraborty, Constable, Police Training School
Jhuma Rani Mondal, Lady Constable, Detective Department
Ulfat Tamang, Sepoy, 3rd Battalion, K.A.P
Kanai Kotal, Sepoy, 3rd Battalion, K.A.P
Kinkar Banerjee, Police Driver, 2nd Battalion, K.A.P
Subhas Sharma, Assistant Sub Inspector, Mounted Police