Virus impact: DGP plans shifts for offices

In view of the outbreak of Covid-19, the state police department has decided to provide alternative working days for the staff ranking below senior assistants and also outsourcing employees and home guards from Friday.

Director General of Police M. Mahendar Reddy on Thursday held a meeting with the heads of all the wings of the state police and asked the officials to make necessary arrangements to divide the employees into shifts.

Mr Mahendar Reddy directed the section superintendents to divide the employees into two groups and to assign alternative days of their attendance in the office.

If only one employee is available in the section, they would not get the alternate working day option. “The ministerial staff are to work on alternate days on rotation basis to ensure that the physical contact among the individuals is minimised to the extent possible,” the Director General of Police said, according to a statement issued to the media on Thursday.

The staff was asked to be available for work and not leave the headquarters. The staff has been told that they would need to come to the office if intimated by the office as it as an ‘on-duty, oncall management’.

“In case, if any employee develops fever, cough, dry cough, body pains, he/she may immediately report the matter to the DSP Stores, so that precautions can be taken to prevent spreading the infection to others,” Mr Mahendar Reddy said, according to the statement.