FOX 29 Dave Schratwieser has more. PHILADELPHIA - Cleaning crews in protective gear and masks spent Tuesday evening meticulously trying to sanitize patrol vehicles in the city's traffic division as the police department tries to ward off the coronavirus. "It’s uncharted waters.
We don’t know what we’re facing every day,” John McNesby, president of Philadelphia's Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5, said.
Across the city, cleaning crews are spraying down patrol cars and the inside of local districts where officers now gather in parking lots to head out on patrol.
Sources say even the third floor of police headquarters is being sanitized. FULL COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS Deputy commissioners are working from home, their vehicles, or remote