Delhi Police on Monday organised special yoga sessions for its personnel deployed across various units on the occasion of seventh International Yoga Day.
“I did my daily Yoga today morning at home. My wife too joined me to observe the 'Yoga Day',” the Delhi Police Commissioner, S N Shrivastava tweeted from his official Twitter handle on Monday.
Shrivastava also posted pictures of him and his wife performing different 'asanas'.
To mark the International Yoga Day, the yoga sessions on Monday morning were performed across all the districts and units of Delhi Police.
The officials of districts including South, Northwest, Southwest, New Delhi districts also posted pictures of police officials performing yoga on Twitter.
A special yoga session was carried out at the Singhu border where personnel from the Delhi Police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) units deployed performed various yogic postures, a senior police official said.
“Yoga sessions were organized at police stations and units across the district on the International Yoga Day and police officials including senior officers also took part in it. Amid ongoing pandemic, yoga helps in reductions of tension and fatigue,” said Anto Alphonse, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), North district.
In the southeast district, a similar programme was organised for police personnel to reduce their stress and keep their mind calm.
“It will improve their immunity as Covid pandemic is still prevailing and as a frontline warrior, police are much prone to be infected with coronavirus.
Keeping their physical endurance and mutual stability in view, police staff of southeast district have pledged to perform and adhere to the norms of yoga in their routine life for performing their duties better,” said R P Meena, the DCP, Southeast district.