Jharkhand director general of police M V Rao made one more safety measure for his constabulary and officials including himself when his IG (Provision) Vipul Shukla under DGP’s order announced an instruction that no cop and official will wear cap from April 01.
IG Shukla issued a written instruction on April 01 wherein there is an embargo on wearing cap. Shukla said, “We have asked our men and all officials not to wear cap. This instruction has come into effect immediately that is April 01.”
IG further said, “This embargo is till further orders”. He said there is an instruction for wearing full sleeve uniform which is applicable to cops to officers both without any exception. Sources said this instruction is for DGP also.
Asked about this not to use cap by cops and officers IG said, “It is primarily for the hygiene reasons. Caps cannot be washed so frequently and regularly as one gets uniform washed. Hence caps have been taken off from the heads.”
Reminded that DGP has so gone minutely about sleeve of the uniform and the cap but one thing that still may become the source of worry in time of coronavirus is the stars that are on the shoulder of the cops and the DGP as well to which IG Shukla on hearing this issue got concerned saying, “ This too will be discussed with senior officials.”
However, he said that it is the stars that identify the rank of the cops and officials and if it is ‘off’ then there is a fear of greater confusion to set in among the force out in the field for tackling any law and order situation or for containing or foiling any unlawful activity.
“For field formation police need stars. It is a required thing,” the IG reiterated.
However, when alluded to WHO’s note on coronavirus that its virus sits more and longer time on metal he said “ Our stars need to be re looked from this point of view.”
SP Palamu Ajay Linda said, “Our police force here has begun to follow these instructions. We are all out to have our police family safe and fit in this most highly challenging time.”
Linda said, “We were told of people having no suitable or any adequate water resources available to them taking to the river Koyal here, on which I dispatched my SDPO Sandip Kumar Gupta to the bank of river to find out who these people were.”
Linda said, “People which included women, girls and some boys were of the extremely depressed and destitute class as women were found washing their kitchen utensils, children’s clothes as they had no water source back home.”
SDPO Gupta said, “Under order of SP we rushed there where we found very few people collecting drinking water for their use.”
Sources said the river Koyal is the life line and it is the lock down that has reduced the dependency of poor on this river to a large extent.