Policemen in city declared fit for duty

Nashik: All the police personnel across the city, who are being monitored through their wristbands and synced to their smartphones have been declared fit to perform their duty.

As many as 1,421 policemen have synced their wrist bands to their smartphones so far, which is eventually connected to the Covid-19 dashboard set-up at the police commissionerate.

None of them showed any signs of temperature, eventually being declared fit.

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, who is the brand ambassador of the wristband, provided the city police with 500 wristbands. While directors of Datar Cancer Genetics Ltd, Rajan Datar and Sneha Datar, sponsored the remaining 2,632 wrists bands taking the total to 3,132 wrist bands given to policemen.

Other than 125 police personnel who are on leave, all others have been declared fit. This includes personnel, who couldn’t sync their wrist bands but are manually checked, said senior police officers.

The blood pressure, body temperature, etc are monitored by the immediate heads of the police personnel, who pass on the information to the upper level which ultimately comes on the Covid dashboard at the police commissionerate.

They said that a team of police personnel would monitor the dashboard. If they see a temperature alert, the concerned policemen would be contacted and follow up of their health would be taken.