Van to sanitise police personnel at Karnal nakas

rnal, April 14

The Karnal police flagged off a sanitisation van today to protect personnel discharging their duties at various nakas from the Covid pandemic.

The pressure fogging system fitted in the van can sanitise 12 persons at a time in just 3 to 5 seconds. It would cover the district to sanitise police personnel on duty at roads and in the police stations.

For full-body sanitisation, police personnel will have to enter the van from the rear and wait for 3 to 5 seconds.

“We took a prison van and refitted it for the purpose. It started operations today as we checked its capability. It can sanitise 12 persons at a time. We’ll use it for the public if they want to avail the facility,” said Bharti Arora, IG, Karnal range. She flagged off the van from the mini-secretariat. She and SP Surinder Singh Bhoria also got themselves sanitised. She said this van was the idea of her batchmate Vishwas Nangare Patil, working with Maharashtra Police.

She said the driver would be in control of the system. “We are planning more such vans for Kaithal and Panipat so that police personnel on duty can be sanitised,” she added.

Asked about the use of disinfectants for sanitisation, she said they used benzalkonium chloride along with aloevera and neem, which had no side effect on the skin. — TNS