Palamu police are neo makers of homemade hand wash. The indigenous preparation has the backing of the SP Palamu Ajay Linda who has taken all the pains to ask his officials and cops down to the traffic constables to do all to keep safe, fit and healthy in time of this fear of coronavirus.
Linda said, “I have shared with my boys and officers on whatsapp to do all to take basic preventive measures in this regard.”
Sadar SDPO Sandip Kumar Gupta said, “Chainpur police station officer in charge Sunit Kumar and his team has prepared a homemade lotion of leaves of neem tree, some alum ( phitkaree) and camphor ( kapoor) which is proving a big hit.”
Sunit Kumar brought a bottle of his homemade lotion saying, “We got leaves of neem tree. We boiled it too hard with alum and camphor. We then left it to sedimentation and then we stir it and our potion is ready.”
Kumar even poured five to six drops of this lotion on the palms of the correspondent asking him to rub it.
The potion was too good with a friendly odour as well.
SDPO Gupta said, “Our Ramgarh police have prepared a similar lotion with charita a medicinal herb.
This shows that cops and officials are concerned about their hand wash.”
Inspector of Chainpur R R Shahi said, “As I am doubling up as sergeant major these days I am driving the order of SP Linda sir right from police drivers to officials to keep hands washed and not to touch anything metallic without any necessity.”
Revolver/pistol/ guns of all varieties are metallic substances and this virus has its favourite seat on metal or metallic substance said doctors in India and abroad and cops and officials have one of these by their waist.
Gupta said, “The Chainpur police station has kept a jar of water with soap for the visitors to hand wash.”
However Sunit Kumar said, “The visitors see these things but skip it and just come in great numbers to the inside of the police station. We ask them not to come in such gathering but their village ethos makes them come in numbers perhaps to show solidarity with the visitor.”
Apart from visitors not doing hand wash despite facilities made available it is the half sleeve uniform of the cops and the officials that is a matter of great concern.
Cops and officials are to wear half sleeve uniform on/ from March 16 butwhen it comes to sneezing in the bended elbow half sleeve uniform comes as a major stumbling block.
ADG Murari Lal Meena said, “It is true cops and officials are to wear half sleeve uniform called ‘asteen moora’ on/ from March 16 but it is a difficult time now because of this coronavirus fear and now sneezing is noticed the hard way and full sleeve called in police jargon as ‘bund asteen’ will be definitely too handy for any cop or official to use his bended elbow for sneezing or coughing either.”