Reference Handbook for Covid-19 Policing Date: 6th June, 2020 FOREWORD COVID-19 Outbreak poses unprecedented challenges to law enforcement officers as they are at the fore front fighting the pandemic and at the same time trying to keep the citizens and force safe. This reference handbook seeks to standardize and summarize the standard operating procedures of policing, right from the early stage of identification of the COVID-19 disease to ensuring mitigation of this deadly pandemic by coordinating with various Sri M. Mahender Reddy, IPS stakeholders of the society. Director General of Police, Telangana State. For the past couple of months, it has been increasingly proven that timely and effective policing can help prevent the COVID-19 pandemic to a large extent. And so it is extremely important to consolidate the procedures and ideas in a concise and crisp manner. There is a need for evolving a frame work in the post-lockdown period to prevent largescale spread of Corona virus among Police personnel deployed on regular policing duties. In this regard a Committee was constituted with the following officers; 1. Dr. Jitender, IPS, ADG (L&O) TS., Hyderabad. - Chairman 2. Sri. Y. Nagi Reddy, IPS, IGP North Zone - Member 3. Sri. Sanjay Kumar Jain, IPS, IGP (P&L), TS. - Member 4. Sri. M. Stephen Raveendra, IPS, IGP West Zone - Member/Convener 5. Smt. B. Sumathi, IPS, DIG, CID (WSW) - Member 6. Smt. Rema Rajeshwari, IPS, SP, Mahabubnagar - Member 7. Sri. P. Satyanarayana, DSP, PSQMU, DGP Office - Member The committee assessed various risks involved in policing a pandemic and came up with a framework for mitigating the risk faced by Police officers in the course of discharge of their duties. In addition, the contribution of N. Swetha, IPS, Superintendent of Police, Kamareddy District, Sri. C. Narendernath Reddy, Addl. SP (CID), TS, Hyderabad, Sri. T. Uma Maheshwar Rao, DSP, CID, TS, Hyderabad and Smt. V. Sandhya, Jr. Asst. O/o the IGP, West Zone, Hyderabad is noteworthy. As we look to the scientific community to find us a vaccine for this pandemic very soon, I hope and believe that this handbook will equip us with necessary and timely tools and ideas in the progress of battle against this pandemic till such time. This can help us in preventing the spread of the disease to a large extent and also contain further causalities as much as we can. Director General of Police, Telanagana State Contents 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................................................1 1.1 Transmission mode: .......................................................................................................................................................................1 2. Scope and Purpose.....................................................................................................................................................................................2 3. Current Position ............................................................................................................................................................................................3 4. Response of Governments ....................................................................................................................................................................4 4.1 Phase1 : Screening and Quarantining : ............................................................................................................................4 4.2 Phase 2: Closure of Industries, Schools, Commercial establishments etc., .............................................4 4.3 Phase 3: Lock Down and Testing .........................................................................................................................................4 4.4 Phase 4: Easing of Lock Down ...............................................................................................................................................4 5. Covid 19 Patient Management ...........................................................................................................................................................5 5.1 Contact Tracing: ...............................................................................................................................................................................5 5.1.1 MoHFW’s discharge policy on COVID: ...................................................................................................................6 5.1.2 Confirmed Case Management Protocol by the State of Telangana: ...............................................7 5.2 Isolation / Quarantine ...................................................................................................................................................................9 5.3 Testing ....................................................................................................................................................................................................9 5.4 Treatment ...........................................................................................................................................................................................10 5.5 Repeat ...................................................................................................................................................................................................10 6. Strategy for Lock Down Enforcement ......................................................................................................................................... 11 6.1 Establishment of Check Posts .............................................................................................................................................. 11 6.1.1 Stranded Operating Procedure (SOP) for the officers deployed at check posts: .............. 12 6.1.2 Entry and Medical Checkup at the State border: ..................................................................................... 12 6.2 Establishment of COVID Control Room ........................................................................................................................ 13 6.2.1 COVID Passes: ...................................................................................................................................................................14 6.3 Supply Chain Management ................................................................................................................................................... 15 6.3.1 Civil Supplies department ........................................................................................................................................16 6.3.2 Agriculture, Horticulture Marketing Department ...................................................................................16 6.3.3 Fisheries ................................................................................................................................................................................ 17 6.3.4 Animal Husbandry ......................................................................................................................................................... 17 6.3.5 E-Commerce ......................................................................................................................................................................18 6.3.6 Price Monitoring: .............................................................................................................................................................18 6.4 Regulation/Shifting of Market areas ................................................................................................................................18 6.5 Coordination with Other Stake Holders ........................................................................................................................19 6.6 Migrant Labour: ..............................................................................................................................................................................19 6.6.1 Handling Migrant labour and stranded people: .......................................................................................19 6.6.2 Advisory by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on migrant workers: ..............................................20 7. MANAGEMENT OF CONTAINMENT ZONES .......................................................................................................................... 22 7.1 Large outbreak:.............................................................................................................................................................................. 22 7.2 Geographic quarantine: ........................................................................................................................................................... 22 7.3 Factors affecting large outbreak cluster containment...................................................................................... 22 7.4 Institutional arrangement at the operational level .............................................................................................. 23 7.5 Identify area under geographic quarantine .............................................................................................................. 23 7.6 Surveillance: ....................................................................................................................................................................................