A veteran narcotics officer within the Chicago Police Department died of COVID-19 early Thursday, officers mentioned. The officer’s dying is the primary within the just about 14,000-person division, which has noticed greater than 60 showed circumstances of COVID-19 as of Wednesday. Interim CPD Supt. Charlie Beck known the officer as Marco DiFranco. “His sacrifice underscores the threats that are faced by public safety employees who are not, by nature of their profession, allowed to shelter in place, shelter at home,” Beck mentioned at a City Hall information convention, the place used to be joined by way of the Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Kevin Graham, president of the Fraternal Order of Police. Sources mentioned the 50-year-old officer have been with the CPD