nagpur city and district police are zealously promoting social distancing and also adopting innovative measures to enforce without the lathi the national lockdown to break coronavirus chain cops are also now monitoring the bandobast through drone camera systems to keep a vigil on lanes and internal roadscommissioner of police bk upadhyay has extended the validity of police passes issued to citizens to provide essential services from march 31 to april 14koradi police on monday under senior pi vazeer shaikh took action against 40 violators in an innovative way as state government has asked cops to adopt humane approach maintaining the norms of social distancing shaikh set up a makeshift detention camp at his police station and also at mahadula where he drew circles at safe distances to make detainees sit in separately they had to sit in the sun until we completed the formalities he saidin another example zonal dcp vinita sahu and sadar police intercepted three youngsters on a bike riding without helmet at japanese garden square apart from penalizing them for violations of motor vehicle act the three were also made to stand apart following social distancing norms and their video was made admitting to having breached traffic rules and also section 144city police under supervision of cp upadhyay have pulled up 1877 violators including 126 who were detained for breaching section 144 around 1734 traffic violators were also penalizedfollowing warning from the top brass city police have also detained 80 vehicles including 72 bikes for violating the stay at home policy of the lockdown in the four districts ig nagpur range kmm prasanna enforced social distancing norms stringently at three levels apart from preventing breach of section 144 the personnel have been made aware of the importance of social distancing through educative video he saidwe have ensured social distancing norms are followed at police stations while checking at nakabandis and also while dealing with the masses cops have been told to maintain utmost hygiene and follow safety measures like frequent use of sanitizers and also wear mask and change it every day he saidthe cops on the roads are also told to avoid communication from close quarters said the ig he said even the lathis or sticks are sanitized frequently while they are being usedon a large scale prasanna cited the example of wardha police who have shifting a popular market to a ground to maintain social distancing norms we have ensured people can still go to a place to buy vegetables but due to the available space they would be spread out he said prasanna also informed that police in the districts of wardha bhandara chandrapur and nagpur rural are following the three basic policies to keep people off the roads we are just stopping convincing and sending people back from nakabandis and when necessary taking legal actions he saidciting the example from chandrapur prasanna said two trucks carrying around 50 people from telangana to madhya pradesh were intercepted we immediately seized the two trucks and