State DGP M V Rao through his twitter handle has asked Jharkhand police to present themselves as a friend in distress. Rao has asked police to help the homeless, destitute, person not having food or are any sick. The DGP wrote police to take the hungry to the nearest administration’s food centre and sick to the hospital and inform this to the state PHQ centre.
Palamu police are up on this. Sadar SDPO Sandip Kumar Gupta under order of the SP Palamu Ajay Linda got food grains given to police by benevolent and made the food grains reach daal bhaat kendras and other poor dwellings where Gupta said he has asked the Kendra people to prepare food with it and give it to the poor without charging them even 5 rupees a thali.
Linda said, “We are tough with the offenders who try to breach lock down but careful and concerned for the poor and the hungry.”
A Maharashtra based senior IPS officer Sanjay Anand Lathkar who had had his stint here in Jharkhand till this December 2019 has recently come across a group of people hungry and fatigued but not disclosing their State identity and these were there on a Navi Mumbai street all for food and CRPF men later arranged food for them.