US Consul General presents Trafficking in Persons Award to Mahesh Bhagwat

US Consul General presents Trafficking in Persons Award to Mahesh Bhagwat
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U S Consul General Katherine Hadda, at an event held here on Friday, presented the 2017 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Hero Award to Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat, Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda.

Hyderabad: U S Consul General Katherine Hadda, at an event held here on Friday, presented the 2017 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Hero Award to Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat, Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda.

Telangana Director General of Police for Railways and Road Safety, T. Krishna Prasad, senior police officials, including Principal Secretary for Home Rajiv Trivedi, Commissioners of Police M Mahendar Reddy, (Hyderabad), Sandeep Shandilya, (Cyberabad), former U S State Department TIP Heroes - Sunitha Krishnan (2009), Umapathi Sattaru (2010) – U S Consuls General of Chennai, Kolkata and senior officials of the U S Embassy New Delhi were present on the occasion.

The U S Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, every year, honours outstanding individuals from across the world who devote their careers to fight to end human trafficking. For 2017, the U S Department of State chose to recognise eight such individuals, including Bhagwat.

On June 27, U S Secretary of State Rex Tillerson presented the 2017 TIP Hero awards at an event in Washington, in the presence of Ambassador-at- Large for the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Susan Coppedge and Advisor to the President Donald Trump.

Bhagwat could not attend the event then. Bhagwat was recognised “for his dynamic leadership as the first police commissioner of the Rachakonda Commissionerate, his vital role in preventing human trafficking, his innovative approach to investigate cases and busting trafficking operations.”

In her remarks on the occasion, Consul General Hadda said, “by presenting Commissioner Bhagwat with this 2017 TIP Hero Award, we are also recognising the commitment of the Telangana government and its hardworking police force to fight a huge and growing tragedy - trafficking in persons for sexual and labour exploitation.”

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