'Humane' side of police during Covid-19 created lasting impression on people, says PM Modi

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the public outreach by the police forces during Covid-19 pandemic has made a collective and lasting impact in the society regarding their humanitarian face, and exhorted young IPS officers to sustain this "treasure". Addressing IPS officers from the 2018 batch during their convocation ceremony held via video-conferencing, Modi stated: “For a common man (in pre-Covid times), the police was identified with force, argument and excesses. This had, by and large, become the public image of the police. While humane acts by the police have drawn attention from time to time, these never made a collective,...