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PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - Pennsylvania State Police troopers say they will handle more incident by phone due to the coronavirus.
This involves only non-emergency calls like littering and identity theft.
A release from state police Commissioner Robert Evanchik says the idea is to limit person to person contact. Emergencies and crimes in progress will be responded to as always in person.
State Police provide full-time coverage to nearly 1,300 communities in Pennsylvania.
State Police are also heading up enforcement of non-life essential businesses.
On Tuesday 16 businesses across the state received warnings for a total of 123 since enforcement began on March 23.
Only one business was warned locally in Troop B, which covers most of Allegheny County, part of Westmoreland County and all of Washington, Greene and Fayette Counties.
Zero citations have been used.
Local police can also enforce non-life essential businesses. The number of warnings/citations issued by those departments have not be released.
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