In the special operations category, five officers and personnel have been selected for their work during an operation conducted on May 12 and 13, 2026.
LUCKNOW: As many as 22 police officers and personnel from Uttar Pradesh have been selected for the Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence for 2026 in recognition of their outstanding work in special operations and investigation. Another five police personnel have been recognised for their contribution to an operation conducted between September 27 and October 1, 2025. Apart from the 22 personnel from the UP Police, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sabhajeet Chauhan, posted with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Lucknow, has also been selected for the medal in the investigation category.
The list released by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs includes officers ranging from deputy inspector general (DIG) and senior superintendent of police (SSP) to superintendents of police (SP), additional SPs, inspectors, sub-inspectors and head constables. They include SSP Devesh Kumar Pandey, inspectors Vikram Singh and Fazlur Rahman, and head constables Shailendra Kumar Singh and Amit Kumar. In the investigation category, five Uttar Pradesh police officers have been selected for the medal. They are SP Anukriti Sharma, inspectors Vishwajeet Pratap Singh, Sanjesh Kumar and Umesh Roria, and Sub-Inspector Brindavan Rai.
Of the 22 awardees from Uttar Pradesh, 17 have been selected in the special operations category for their contribution to two separate operations, while five have been recognised for excellence in investigation. In the special operations category, five officers and personnel have been selected for their work during an operation conducted on May 12 and 13, 2026. They include ATS DIG Abhishek Yadav, Additional SP Preeti Bala Gupta, inspectors Arvind Kumar Pandey, Sudhir Kumar Ujjwal and Kailash Yadav.