Maldives Police Service has confirmed that the authority has trained over 150 officers to counter and cautioned them against the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the local law enforcement authority, Police have been providing specific training to its officers in light of the rapidly spreading virus in order to better prepare them to counter or handle any situation.
Officers are trained on properly wearing the protective gear as well as standard procedures in isolating or transferring any individual suspected to have contracted the virus.
Moreover, police officers are further trained on transferring patients tested positive for COVID-19 disease.
While Maldives Police is taking several precautionary steps in countering the disease with several control measures in collaborate of Health Protection Agency, the Assistant Commissioner of Police Mr Mohamed Riyaz highlighted on a few cases related to the COVID-19 they were investigating.
According to Mr Riyaz, authorities were investigating for any possible or negligent party in the Kuredu Island Resort case where two expatriates contracted the disease from an Italian traveler.
Moreover, local law enforcement was also investigating the case of an uncooperative individual who refused being sequestered to the isolation facility at Farukolhufushi upon arriving from South Korea and was suspected with carrying symptoms of the disease.
Meanwhile, authorities were investigating a third case which involves an employee of South Palm Resort, Addu, refusing the resort management's order from traveling out of the island - who swam across to the neighboring locally inhabited island of Meedhoo.
