Police Commemoration Day on Oct 21; Police Memorial Ground

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Oct 20, 2017, 11:00 PM

Police Commemoration Day on Oct 21; Police Memorial Ground

The Police Commemoration Day is observed on October 21st every year.This year Home Minister Rajnath Singh will lay the wreath in Police Memorial Ground on Saturday on the occasion of Police Commemoration Day. He will also attend the annual parade.

The day commemorates the sacrifices of ten policemen while defending India’s borders with China in 1959. Indian Police personnel were responsible for manning the 2,500 mile long border of India with Tibet until the autumn of 1959.

Since the year 2012, the Police Commemoration Day Parade is being held at the National level at the Police Memorial, Chanakyapuri.

So far since Independence, 34,418 Police personnel have sacrificed their lives for safeguarding the integrity of the nation and providing security to people of this country. During the last one year, from September 2016 to August 2017, 383 Police personnel have laid down their lives.