Bengaluru: Fifteen police officials from the Whitefield division in Bengaluru tested positive for coronavirus on Monday. With this, 27 police from the Whitefield division have been tested positive so far.
Among the 15, 12 police officials are from the HAL police station.
The HAL police station was sealed off on June 27 after one of the staff members tested positive. All police officials in the station were tested and 11 of the results returned positive on Monday.
The last arrest made at the HAL police station was on June 15 and all the arrested persons had tested negative.
The development comes just days after a 57-year-old Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) from Whitefield Police Station in Bengaluru died on June 27.
An ASI working as security personnel for the VIdhana Soudha also tested positive for the virus posthumously on Monday.
The deaths of six police officials who tested positive for the virus have been reported so far.
