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Superintendent of Police Rahul Dev Sharma awarded President’s Police Medal for Gallantry

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Monday, August 14, 2017
Visakhapatnam

Superintendent of Police Visakhapatnam Rahul Dev Sharma has been awarded the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry for the year 2017.

Rahul Dev Sharma, a 2010 batch IPS officer took over as SP of Visakhapatnam in May 2016. Considered to be highly successful in curbing Maoist menace in the district and it was his tenure that 30 Maoists were killed in an exchange of fire in Ramaguda in the cut-off area in the AOB region.

Out of 192, Andhra Pradesh bagged 52 which include 48 for Greyhounds, the lite anti-naxal force of Andhra Pradesh. Apart from 48 Greyhound personnel, the four officers from the State for the PPM are Rahul Dev Sharma, Additional SP (SIB) Narayan Reddy, SP of Kadapa Attada Babujee and IPS officer Raghuram Reddy who was the former group commander of Greyhounds.