N. Krishnaswamy Indian Police Service (Retd.) |
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The receipt of awards and rewards are occurrences that are few and far
between in a police career. The brickbats so far out-number the bouquets
that one receives, that it is litlle surprise that the policeman
generally ends up at best an incurable cynic and at worst a person who
is insensitive to the point of being inhuman. A fortunate few tide over
these ups and downs thanks to being blessed with a sense of humour that
makes them accept success
and failure not only with
the same equanimity, but as as comic interludes in the
drama of life. I must
consider myself as on of these fortunate, and set out below some of the
more pleasant awrds and rewards that came my way.
A sustained effort to maintain a clean record of average performance has
been seen to be enough to bring an IPS officer the President’s Medal for
Meritorious Service after around 15 years of service and the Presidents
Medal for Distinguished Service after around 20 years. The fact that
many officers with less than average records also get these awards,
would therefore seem to be a recognition that mere survival in the
higher echelons of the Police for over 15 or 20 years have in themselves
come to be considered meritorious and distingushed enough to win these
awards. I
myself received these Medals from the Governor of Tamilnadu,
after the passage aof these periods of time with the usual public
fanfare of Police Medal
Parades as evidenced in the photographs below :
Of
course there was the usual rush of congratulary phone calls and letters
on both occasions, but one message which I received from my daughter Uma
on the latter occasion remains with me as a special memory :
Another award which I received many tears later
and value much more than the above ones is the For Ths Sake Of
Honour Award I received in 2005 from Rotary for my post-retirement work
for the blind. The following is the Citation that accompanied
this award :
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