A&N Police Hold Farewell Parade in Honour of Shri Satyendra Garg

Port Blair, April 11: An impressive Ceremonial farewell parade was held in honour of Shri Satyendra Garg, IPS, the outgoing DGP, at Police Lines, Parade Ground on 11/04/2022. Shri Garg joined as DGP of A&N Islands on 21st December 2020 and is returning back to Delhi on his transfer after successful tenure of more than 15 months.

A total of 06 platoons comprising of IRBn, Executive Police (Male & Female), Fire Service and two Police Bands (Male Brass Band and Ladies Pipe Band) participated in the Farewell Parade. The parade was commanded by Shri Naveen Kumar, Assistant Commandant, IRBn. All senior Police officers ranging from ADGP to Dy.SP and all rank and files from all Units of Police Department attended the function.

Shri Satyendra Garg, IPS, DGP, in his address conveyed his greetings to resident of A&N Islands in general, and all personnel of A&N Police in particular. He lauded the services rendered by A&N Police towards maintaining peace and tranquility, tourist safety, prevention and detection of crime, dealing with fire calls and natural disaster, VIP security etc. While highlighting major achievements of A&N Police in the past 15 months, Shri Garg mentioned about crackdown on bootlegging & drug peddling, drunken driving, illegal immigrants, community outreach, discipline and transparency in Police Administration. Further, conduct of peaceful and incident free Municipal and Panchayat Election and ‘Asani cyclone’ were other major events in which Police rose to the occasion and did commendable work.

DGP appealed to all police personnel to discharge their duties with utmost dedication, professionalism, transparency, integrity & sincerity to take the A&N Police to new and glorious heights.