New Delhi: Coronavirus, ever since it emerged, has affected almost everything concerning life and people in their fight against the highly contagious disease are adjusting themselves every now and then to stay relevant and help each other to come out of the unprecedented situation.
Life has changed for most us and same is the case for police personnel, who work for long hours every day to strengthen the country's fight against the deadly virus, which has claimed over two lakh lives and disrupted economies of most of the nations across the globe.
Delhi Police, which has a huge task of maintaining law and order in the megacity, is also experiencing lots of changes in its work.
"It's not a normal policing anymore. Ever since COVID-19 broke out, our work has changed a lot," DCP North-West Vijayanta Arya told ETV Bharat here.
She said it's no longer a normal policing as things have changed after the outbreak of coronavirus.
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"We sensitize people and educate people about the lockdown and in case of violation, get it reinforced," she said, adding that these two things have taken over the normal policing these days.
The police officer said that ensuring social distancing when people come out for buying essentials is also an important task that the city police does.
On being asked what sort of calls do they get from citizens during the lockdown, which was imposed to curb coronavirus, she said people would call for medicines and other essential items.
"In most cases, senior citizens would call up to get their medicines. Also, there are calls for ration and essential items and try to help them all," Arya said, adding that students from other states, who may have come here for studies, also call to seek help.
"People call up even if they don't need anything. I think it's for some kind of reassurance that somebody is there to look after them," she said.
Talking about how life has changed at home during the coronavirus crisis, the woman officer said lots of things have changed there as well.
"We cannot enter our homes without sanitizing ourselves. We take bath, change clothes and take care of our personal hygiene before interacting with family members who are staying at home," she said, adding that country comes first than anything else for the police and they were there to help fight it battle against the killer disease, which has no cure till date.
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