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Aug 3, 2007

State police shooting championship started

Tuticorin:Inspector-General of Police (Operations) N. Tamil Selvan inaugurated the three-day State police shooting championship at the police shooting range at Valanad, near here, on Thursday.About 300 police personnel (both men and women) representing seven zones — North Zone, South Zone, Armed Police Zone, Greater Chennai City Police zone, Central Zone, West Zone and Headquarters Zone — are taking part.

Additional Commissioner of Police (Greater Chennai City) S.R. Jangid, Inspector-Generals of Police Tamil Selvan and C. Sylendra Babu and Superintendent of Police (Kancheepuram district) A. Amalraj are the four Indian Police Service (IPS) officers contesting the event.The competitions: rifle (100 yards standing, 200 yards kneeling, 300 yards prone and 300 yards snap), service rifle (300 metres prone, standing and kneeling), pistol/revolver (15 yards squatting, 50 yard attack, 25 yards application and 50 yards snap), centre firing (25 metres precision and duelling), and carbine machine gun (50 yards standing, 25 yards battle crouch and 20 yards battle crouch) categories, for men and women separately.


F. M. Hussain, Additional Superintendent of Police, Tamil Nadu Commando School, is the chief referee.According to official sources, medals will be distributed to overall champions in the men and women categories as well to the combined overall champion.Contestants with points as per the qualifying norms/criterion specified will be eligible to take part in the national police shooting competition to be held in Orissa later this year.Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Tirunelveli range) P. Kannapan, Commandant of Small Arms Johnson Antony Jeyapal and Superintendent of Police (Tuticorin) Deepak M. Damor were present at the inaugural function.

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