Jammu, Oct. 22 -- As many as 1,568 police personnel, including one Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), 22 Deputy Superintendents of Police (DySP) have sacrificed their lives for the nation while fighting terrorism and in combat operations since 1989 in various parts of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Official sources here on Thursday told UNI that like other parts of the country, Jammu and Kashmir also commemorated National Police Day across all the regions on Wednesday (October 21) and held programmes and events at various police headquarters to pay tributes to the martyrs.

They further said that on 'National Police Day', Jammu and Kashmir Police also remembered the martyred officers and jawans.

Police Commemoration Day has ...