Intelligence Bureau director Nehchal Sandhu greets one of the team officials at the 60th All India Police Games at Mithilesh Stadium in Patna on Sunday. Picture by Ashok Sinha

Patna, Feb. 5: The Border Security Force (BSF) shot out its rivals in basketball and kabaddi to emerge as the overall champions in the 60th All India Police Games 2011 (volleyball cluster).

While the BSF team was declared the winners in basketball and kabaddi, Punjab police emerged as the winners in volleyball. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was declared victorious in handball. Binod Kumar of the BSF bagged the award for the man of the tournament.

The tournament, which started on February 1 and ended today, was organised at the Mithilesh Stadium in the state capital.

Punjab police team became the runners-up in basketball. The CRPF clinched the third spot.

Karnataka became the runners-up in volleyball, while the CRPF was the second runners-up.

Gurvinder Singh of the Punjab police was declared the best volleyball player.

In kabaddi, the UP police came second while the Punjab police were the second runners-up.

Director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) Nehchal Sandhu gave away the trophies to the members of the winning teams. He also felicitated four Arjuna awardees — Cyril C. Valloor (Kerala), Ramesh Kumar (Haryana), Sundar Singh (Haryana) and Rajendra Singh (Haryana).

Addressing the players and the police officers at the valedictory function, Sandhu, who is also the director of the All India Police Control Board, said the Bihar police would host the All India Athletics Championship and the All India Football Championship in 2012.

He said he was happy with the way the 60th All India Police Games 2011 (volleyball cluster) was conducted. Over 1,600 players from different states, Union territories and central paramilitary forces took part in the four events held between February 1 and February 5.

Sandhu, who is a 1973-batch IPS officer of the Bihar cadre, said: “Such (sport) events provide the players of the states and the central police organisations to display their sportsmanship.”

Referring to the achievements of the players, Sandhu said they won medals in different championships and tournaments, including Asian Games and Commonwealth Games.

He said: “Thirty-two players (from different police organisations) took part in the Commonwealth Games in 2010 in New Delhi, where they bagged 17 medals, including four gold. Similarly in the Asian Games held in November 2010, 50 players took part in which they won 12 medals, including six gold, two silver and four bronze.”

Bihar director-general of police Abhayanand, deputy inspector-general of human rights Raveendran Sankaran, several former IPS officers, including former director-general of police Neel Mani, G.P. Dohre and G. Narayan, were present on the occasion.