COVID-19: Punjab not to deploy cops over 55 yrs on frontline jobs
A day after a 52-year-old police officer died due to COVID-19, the Punjab Police on Sunday decided not to deploy policemen who are over 55 years of age or those with pre-existing medical risk on the frontline jobs.
Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta ordered strict compliance of his orders on weekly off or rest days of all policemen on frontline duties.
"Police personnel over 55 years of age or those with pre-existing and enhanced medical risk factors, such as hypertension issues, cardiac history, asthma or a compromised/suppressed immune system for any reason, should not be deployed on the frontline, as far as possible," he said in an official release here.
An assistant commissioner of police succumbed to coronavirus infection in Ludhiana on Saturday.
The DGP directed all the police commissioners and SSPs to follow a rotational system of providing a weekly off/rest to the frontline personnel, with efforts to organise the deployment in such a manner that two days of rest can be ...