With the spike of Covid-19 cases in the national Capital, around 1,000 police personnel have tested positive for Covid-19 since January 1st, 2022. Police said that those tested positive for the virus are home quarantined and recovering well.
The strength of the Delhi Police force is over 80,000.Recently, following the rise in Covid-19 cases across the city, the Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana had issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) for preventing spread of coronavirus amongst police personnel. Since police personnel are frontline workers performing their duties amidst the public, it is imperative they take adequate precautions to protect themselves from exposure to Covid, it said.
According to the SOPs mentioned in the order dated January 5, all police personnel should wear face-masks, maintain social distancing and practice proper hand hygiene while performing their duties. All police personnel and eligible family members who have not been vaccinated, may be motivated to complete the vaccination process.
"Those who have not been vaccinated due to medical reasons may be encouraged to seek medical opinion again for vaccination" the order said. All police personnel may be motivated to take precaution dose of Covid vaccine and install and use of Aarogya Setu App mandatorily.
Self monitoring practice to be adopted by police personnel and any kind of illness may be reported without fail, to daily health monitoring officer.
The force was asked to go contact less and do their enquires through Video Conferencing and if a visitor came without a face mask, a face mask should be provided to him or her, the order had stated.