Indian police sports contingent felicitated for winning 321 medals in international event

The 101-member Indian police contingent, which returned with a record breaking haul of 321 medals from the 17th World Police and Fire Games in the United States, was felicitated by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh here today.

The contingent bagged 151 gold, 99 silver and 71 bronze medals in seven events, said Director of Intelligence Bureau Rajiv Jain, who is also the chairman of the All India Police Sports Control Board.

It is a rarest of the rare occasion where each team member has won a medal irrespective of individual or relay events in which they participated, he said.

Addressing the athletes, the home minister encouraged the police sportspersons to double the medals tally during the next World Police & Fire Games at Chengdu in China.

In these games, about 8,000 sportspersons from 68 countries from all over the world took part in 83 events and the Indian police contingent participated only in seven sports events -- athletics, archery, wrestling, boxing, judo, swimming and shooting and gave their best performance breaking earlier records.

Singh said the central government has raised the prize money for the medal winners. An amount of Rs 50,000 has been sanctioned for winners of gold medal, Rs 45,000 for silver and Rs 40,000 for bronze medals along with a certificate of participation in each event.