Senior Superintendent of Police Harkamalpreet Singh Khakhwould be conferred the President’s Police Medal Award for his meritoriousservice from President of India Ram Nath Kovind.
Khakh was awarded with the Chief Minister Award fordisplaying commendable work and devotion towards duty by the Punjab ChiefMinister Capt Amarinder Singh during his stint as AIG Counter IntelligenceJalandhar zone on January 26, 2021.
A decorated police officer HPS Khakh has played animportant role in busting a number of criminal and terrorist modules in thestate besides eliminating gang culture from Punjab in the last few years.
Apart from this due to commitment towards wiping out thedrug menace from Punjab, he launched a war against the drug peddlers and bustedseveral international, inter-state drug rackets and put the perpetrators behindthe bars.
It is pertinent to mention here that a team led by HPSKhakh at Phagwara in 2009 had seized 50-kg heroine, is still remembered as thehighest recovery in Punjab.
Khakh had joined the Punjab Police in 1994 as anInspector and in the year 2016, he was promoted to the rank of SSP. Prior to the promotion, he was posted in therank of inspectors, DSPs and SPs in different districts of Punjab. He was awarded with DGP commendation disctwice on the basis of excellent performance.
On award, SSP said he was feeling proud as well ashumbled and dedicating this medal to his late father Harjit Singh Khakh who wasalso a brave cop of Punjab police and served up to the rank of Superintendentof Police Punjab (SP).