COVID-19 pandemic
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 7: Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh chaired a high level meeting of senior officers, zonal, range and district officers and reviews preparedness and measures on ground situation in view of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic today at Police Headquarters here.
The meeting was attended by ADGPs B Srinivas, AK Choudhary, Deepak Kumar, SJM Gillani, AG Mir, IGPs Dr SD Singh Jamwal, T Namgyal, Mukesh Singh, MK Sinha, Gareeb Dass and AIGs of PHQ.
Those officers who participated in the meeting via video conferencing included IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, all Range DIGs of Jammu and Kashmir, all district SSPs of Kashmir and Jammu zones, SSPs PCR Srinagar and Jammu and Medical Superintendent Police Hospital Srinagar.
DGP said that the situation which emerged suddenly have been handled very diligently by the personnel under the guidance of senior officers/leadership on ground. He said the COVID-19 is presently in a sensitive stage. He said that we need to be more careful and ready to handle the evolving situation. He said that the time is to motivate our jawans and officers on ground to remain fit and fighting to stop the spread of deadly virus.
The DGP said that number of COVID positive cases are increasing day by day throughout the world and in the Union Territory also, and as such the involvement of police personnel on sensitive duties is also increasing he added. Lot many things have been done so far by the personnel, but there is much more to do to stop the spread, he said. He said all required logistic and administrative support is being provided to every Police personnel.
The DGP impressed upon officers to increase efforts in tracing those who are hiding their travel history and also in contact tracing. He stressed upon the officers to stay strong and stay safe while performing their duties.
Singh said that every police personnel should be provided with the articles/gear which are necessary to keep these personnel safe, particularly those deployed at sensitive places and on sensitive tasks.
The DGP said that besides handling the crisis of Coronavirus, our officers and jawans of Police, CAPF, and Army are continuing, keeping Counter Insurgency Grid and Border Grid active and geared up. He said that cross border infiltration attempts are being made continuously from Pakistan even in these pandemic times and we have to thwart all such attempts.
During the meeting the senior officers gave briefing about the preparations/ precautions/ contribution made by their wings and units with regard to COVID-19 pandemic and of security in their respective wings and offices.
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