OUTCRY AS SUSPECTED COVID-19 COPS STILL AT WORK

PIGG’S PEAK – While their prime duty is to protect people, police officers are struggling to protect each other from themselves.

The situation is tense at the Pigg’s Peak Police Station and camp after four police officers, suspected of having contracted the deadly coronavirus are still going about their duties.
This comes after contact tracing revealed that police officers were contacts of the Central Transport Administration (CTA) who tested positive. About a week ago, this publication reported that five civil servants from CTA in Pigg’s Peak had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Circumstances

It turned out that some of the CTA employees who had tested positive, had direct contact with certain police officers. This publication has gathered that one of the CTA employees had been fetched from Mbabane by two police officers using a police van. The female employee is said to have sat with the two law enforcers in the front seat. After the employees showed symptoms related to COVID-19, the CTA employees, including the woman, were tested and found to be positive. It was after this that the police officers were traced and found to be contacts. Health officials were then told that they had to take swabs for testing from six police officers. However, only four officers were tested due to shortage of testing equipment.

Under normal circumstances, people who are contact-traced and tested are supposed to be in quarantine for at least 14 days while waiting for their results. Instead of going into quarantine, the police officers continue to work in their various workstations, much to the frustration and infuriation of their colleagues, who have questioned why the suspected cops were not quarantined until they were cleared by their results. Fellow officers fear that if the virus is as contagious as the reports from the Ministry of Health suggest, then it is highly possible that the officers may have contracted it.

Yesterday, one of the officers was spotted in full uniform with several others patrolling the streets of Pigg’s Peak Town Centre. Several police officers are bitter about this, complaining that they are now putting their lives at risk. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the police officers alleged that the situation was serious, but that colleagues were afraid to speak about it.

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