The police force of Ladakh will henceforth be referred to as Ladakh Police and not Jammu and Kashmir police as the newly formed Union Territorty gets its own police force insignias and nomenclature.
An order regarding the same was issued by the Inspector General of Ladakh, S.S. Khandare on Saturday.
The order read “Wherever the organisational name ‘J&K Police’ is written on any signboards, police vehicles, letterheads, office stationaries, seals and other official items of UT Police should be replaced by the word ‘LADAKH POLICE’ in capital letters henceforth”
Ladakh was carved out as a Union Territory from the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, following the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A thereby fulfulling a long pending demand of the people of the Ladakh. The government passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill in the Parliament to give legal sanctity to the same.
The state was officially bifurcated on October 31, 2019.