Pandemic continues to pose a challenging task to Kerala police
The Hindu
By the time things settled down on the pandemic front, crime rate started getting back to the pre-pandemic level
The pandemic that imposed a hitherto unprecedented job profile on the police continued to challenge the force in the district in 2021 with an in the first half of the year.
Then after the near normalisation of life for months, police have now again been put on alert with the threatening another potential wave.
“The second wave posed an immense challenge in enforcing home quarantine since the numbers were huge. We also have to strictly enforce social distancing and wearing of masks. Later, crowd management at vaccination centres in coordination with various departments assumed priority,” recollected C.H. Nagaraju, District Police Chief (Kochi City).