When cops worked tirelessly to feed stranded guest workers

Coimbatore: The city police have distributed four lakh food packets to guest workers during the lockdown.
City police commissioner Sumit Sharan said, “People from across the country approached us through our Twitter handle with a request to help the stranded guest workers. We subsequently formed six mobile teams to supply food packets to them. Handling them was a big task for us.”
He said they had help from NGOs and other organizations to distribute food packets to guest workers. The drive, he said, started on March 25. “Some of them wanted groceries. We helped them with rice, dhal, wheat flour, salt, masala, edible oil and vegetables.”
Sumit Sharan said social media had played a major role in helping them identify the needy and offer assistance. “A woman from Tirupur, who had come to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital for dialysis, was stuck in the city without e-pass for return journey. She tagged a message to our Twitter handle and we immediately arranged the e-pass. Likewise, we arranged e-passes for many girl students from Assam.”
The city police have also worked with the revenue department to send 44,676 guest workers back to their native places in 34 special trains and another 3,000 in special buses.
The city police commissioner said they had deployed the entire force to ensure complete lockdown. “A mini control room was set up at the city police commissionerate to coordinate with all the other departments. Our focus was on curtailing the public movement by booking violators of prohibitory orders. During the drive, we also seized thousands of vehicles from the violators.”
He said they had also thermal screened the guest workers and other people who had come out on streets during lockdown. “We have thermal screened 1,00,700 people.”