To ensure safety of its officials, personnel and their families, the Delhi Police on Thursday formed committees in its six ranges to adopt the best preventive measures to fight against Covid-19. SN Shrivastva, Delhi Commissioner of Police (CP), has directed these six committees to visit the Police Stations and Police Colonies in each range to assess and bring improvements in the preventive measures for Covid-19 for the staff and families.
According to Chinmoy Biswal, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Headquarters, David Lalrinsanga, Joint CP, Headquarters will be heading the Southern range committee along with Mohammad Ali, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Vigilance and Anita Routy, the DCP, Traffic while K Jegadesan, Joint CP, operations will be Chairman for the westren range committee along with Chepyala Anjitha, Additional DCP, Traffic and Owana Kumar, Additional DCP, Prime Minister security.
"OP Mishra, the Joint CP, EOW will be heading Committee of Northern range along with Varsha Sharma, DCP, EOW and K ramesh Additional DCVP, Traffic. While Central Range Committee will be headed by Atul Katiyar, Joint CP, Transport range, the New Delhi range committee chairman will be ID Shukla, the Joint CP, Security. Dheeraj Kumar, Additional CP, Vigilance will be Chairman of the Eastern range Committee," said the DCP.
"The committee will conduct checks in the police stations in their range to see cleanliness of barracks, kitchens and bathrooms, availability of soap/tissue paper in bathrooms, availability of hand sanitiser in barracks, sanitisation of Police Stations, availability of masks, maintaining of social distancing in police stations, barracks, pickets, Containment Zones, Hospitals/ Quarantine Centres, hand gloves and face shields for the staff where required, thermal scanners at the gates for visitors/staff, utilisation of Hotels/Guest Houses for the staff living in NCR/Other States/deployed in quarantine centers/ Hospitals, reasons for more positive Covid-19 patients from polic station and if any Police personnel is found positive then what preventive. measures have been taken for containment," stated the order issued on Thursday.
"The committees will also check police colonies and will make sure that there is cleanliness, sanitisXation, number of residents of colonies infected with Covid-19. Further, each Committee shall inspect the preventive Covid-l9 arrangements for staff in each police station and police colonies in the respective Range. They shall also inspect the status of preventive Covid- l9 arrangements for our staff at all pickets, Quarantine Centres, Hospitals, Containment Zones in all the police stations. The Committee shall specifically note the good practices being implemented and the same should be shared so that they can be replicated in all other places. Any shortcomings noticed shall also be reported, so that corrective action can be taken promptly. They shall analyse and come up with suggestions for improvement in the system," the order further stated.
"The Chairmen of Committees shall submit Range-wise report to the CP everyday about the police stations and police colonies visited on the previous day. They will also recommend the names of officers and staff who have done exceptionally good work in this regard, along with the details of their good work, for acknowledgement and rewards," the letter further added.