Thiruvananthapuram: The spread of covid among the police in the state is severe. This reinforces the need for duty adjustment. Most of the staff involved in the spread of the disease are station workers.
Police organizations have approached the state police chief with a demand for duty adjustment as the spread of the disease is likely to hamper the internal security and law and order of the state.
Use the online systems for receiving complaints from the public to reduce the spread of the disease through contact, expand the existing online system to include more options, temporarily withdraw the operation of various squads of non-emergency nature and take steps to deploy them on duty at police stations, give leave for maternity and pediatric patients are the demands needed by the police organizations to the state police chief.
Meanwhile, in the third wave of covid, about 500 policemen in the Kochi City Police have been affected by covid so far. Currently, there are about 200 policemen in the home quarantine. Covid has also affected the families of several police officers, including young children and the elderly.
Covid has affected more than half of the people at various stations. The operation at many stations has come to a standstill as the police are moving to Quarantine in droves.
