When I read about reports on GoaNet about the average amount, in rupees, that Lamanis who operate illegaly on the tourist coastal belt in North Goa ( Calangute, Candolim and Baga ) have to pay the police , and the absence of any tourist police ( obviously once they have been paid off ) I cease to wonder how much we Goans have imbibed the Indian "standard operating procedure " of hafta to to the police station , and carry on as usual. If Goans have any memory when the NDTV station conducted an interview on Baga beach with the locals and Scarlett Kealing`s mother, after her killing, an English woman tourist asserted that that she regularly saw the police on the beachside extract money from the illegal traders, the goan police officer at that TV interview seem unpreturbed by the accusation. I guess that our goan police officers beleive that like the rest of India it is " hafta ghe " and business as usual ! You can bet if I could cc this message to the IG of Goa State police I would never get a response .
