SRINAGAR: Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh has sanctioned over Rs 9 lakh as special relief in favour of 184 police personnel of Jammu and Kashmir Police who had got infected by the 2nd wave of COVID-19 pandemic.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the J&K police personnel have been working day in and day out in implementing the government directives to check the spread of COVID-19. Despite precautionary measures, many policemen on ground are contracting the disease and getting infected. To provide them some financial assistance, DGP sanctioned the relief of Rupees nine lakh twenty thousand in favour 184 COVID-19 affected police personnel. The amount has been sanctioned out of the Police Pariwar Fund.
Rupees 5,000 each have been sanctioned in favour of these affected police personnel. The move is part of the assistance provided by the Police Department to personnel affected by COVID-19, since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.
184 personnel have been granted special assistance. Among them, 3 each are posted in PCR Kashmir and CID CI Kashmir, 5 each are posted in district Srinagar and Crime Headquarters J&K, 2 each are posted In district Doda, DIG IR Kashmir, District Kulgam and IRP 2nd Battalion, 6 are posted in district Baramulla, 12 each are posted in JKAP 12th Battalion and Police District Awantipora, 10 are posted in JKAP 5th Battalion, 36 are posted in districts Ganderbal and Reasi, 32 are posted in SSG J&K, 11 are posted in district Anantnag and 1 each in PHQ, JKAP 4th Battalion, JKAP 9th Battalion, Telecom Kashmir and DIG U/R range.
