Covid 19 which threw up numerous challenges and hard times for everyone also brought police and public too close,” said in charge DIG of police Palamu Akhilesh Jha. He said Covid 19 has changed the people’s perception of Jharkhand police.
The DIG said, “Our enormous visibility in the pandemic Coronavirus has brought us closer to police now as public by and large have a positive and a different view point of State police now treating it as a friend in need.”
He said, “Since I am the DIG police Ranchi range and this Palamu range is my additional charge I have too many occasions to meet common people and now they tell me their confidence in police has gone up in this national health emergency.”
Sources said DGP M V Rao’s scheme where cops reach elderly citizens their medicines has won hearts of the people as only the other day here a man called up police control room in Daltonganj and requested for anti cancer medicines to be reached to him said SDPO Sadar Sandip Kumar Gupta who said,
“We have assured the caller that medicine if available here will surely reach him or otherwise it will be arranged from Ranchi.”Jha said, “State police are looking forward to that day when we on our own begin to fight naxals here.”