Changing contours of police administration during Covid-19 pandemic in India
- Bihar Journal of Public Administration
- 18(1A), Jan-Jun, 2021: p.137-144
Police organizations have expertise and training in dealing with emergency situations and disaster management. Unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of the scale and complex effects, has produced adverse conditions in society. The police, as a first responder to the disaster, have been one of the severely affected governmental organ. Thus, the present paper attempt to understand the role of police in processes of preventing and treatment of the pandemic stricken people and maintaining law and order in turmoil situation. The vulnerability of the police personnel’s of exposure to virus infection, in addition to their various job commitments, has led them struggling in spite of efficient police driven by various job-related commitments. Police-public relations at the time of pandemic are shifting with multiple negotiations and communication factors. Police and their diverse contribution to the pandemic has placed them on the centre stage. Since police remain as a frontline worker in this ravaging COVID 19 pandemic, the normal nature of its work has changed and the pandemic has posed new challenges before them, particularly to enforce the changing pandemic guidelines on one hand and containing the desperation of the people on the other. – Reproduced