The Charleston (SC) Police Department announced on social media that it will change the way they interact with some members of the community to minimize officers' exposure to COVID-19 (also known as the coronavirus).
The agency said on Twitter that it is "instituting an Alternative Call for Service Plan in an attempt to limit the number of contacts for its employees amid the Coronavirus outbreak. Until further notice, officers may respond to complaints of nonviolent incidents that have occurred in the past with a telephone call to the complainant. Incident reports can still be written and follow-up investigations, when necessary, will still occur."