CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS
Police Commemoration Day- OCT 21
- National Police Commemoration Day is observed on October 21 every year.
- It is observed to salute the spirits of police forces and their families and brave police martyred who lost their lives fighting for the country.
- It is celebrated to motivate and pay respect to the police personnel who perform their duties with the utmost diligence.
- Police Commemoration Day commemorates the day in 1959, when twenty Indian soldiers were attacked by Chinese troops in Ladakh’s Hot Spring area, in which, ten Indian policemen lost their lives and seven were imprisoned.
- Since that day, 21 October has been observed as Police Commemoration Day in honour of the martyrs.
