PATIALA: Responding positively to the call given by the District Police, Patiala through local VPOs (Village Police Officers) and SHOs, as many as 398 village panchayats and 70 ward councillors have passed resolutions to join hands with the district administration in their fight against covid. The resolutions particularly mentioned the covid appropriate behaviour, particularly the wearing of masks and maintaining social distance.
Divulging the details of the community engagement initiative taken up under MISSION FATEH, SSP Vikramjeet Duggal said, "Patiala Police have started involving local community, youth, village elders and civil society organisations to reach out to the masses, seeking their support to fight against covid.
“Cases are rising exponentially each day, and we can not check it without the public support. In Patiala only, we are seeing over 300 new covid positive cases almost everyday. As the community comes forward to assist us implement the latest government guidelines, it becomes easy for us to focus on the other aspects related to covid as well as law and order”, says Patiala SSP, Vikram Jeet Duggal.
Karam Singh, MC of Ward-5, Sanour observed, “This new initiative by the Punjab police will help contain the spread of the virus by dissemination of information on covid appropriate behaviour. We have passed a resolution in the presence of entire panchayat members and village elders that no one in the village will come out without a mask. We will see that no one comes into the village without a mask. We have enough masks at our disposal to distribute so that no one breaks the mask related norm in the village”
While extending his gratitude to the people of the district for coming up in a big way to assist the local police in containing the virus, SSP said, “It is certainly an overwhelming response with so many panchayats taking up this cause, passing hundreds of resolutions in just 2 days. We are sure the remaining panchayats and ward councils will take a clue from them and will respond to our call.”
The SSP appealed to everyone to stick to the latest covid guidelines issued by the Government of Punjab. He warned for strict action against violators.