COVID-19 is hitting the Washington City Police Department hard. Washington’s Finance Director, Joe Manning, has confirmed to WJPA News that five additional police officers have contracted COVID – in addition to six officers who tested positive last week. This brings to eleven, out of thirty officers in the department who are out with the coronavirus. Manning says they are still okay as far as public safety goes, because officers are continuing to work overtime in order to maintain minimum staffing. Manning says most of the officers who have tested positive are okay and are not dealing with serious issues. He says they are still not sure how they contracted the virus, but, since the first case was detected they have been sanitizing their work areas and most of the staff at the police station are getting tested out of an abundance of caution. Chief Robert Wilson had said earlier that some of the officers who tested positive were vaccinated and some were not. For the foreseeable future, Manning says officers will continue to run one-man cars, wearing masks inside the police station and when dealing with the public and maintaining social distancing with one another.