I was lucky for having been taken up before breaking off for Lunch. Very interesting skeletons have emerged from the Police cubboards, some frightening.
This is what I have said in brief for the benefit of the CS, DIG, SPs and DYSPOs present. The house was packed full. Godfrey Gonsalves who is yet to depose will give the full account, hopefully. Police: GOA POLICE - PRIDE OF GOA - NOT A SHAME Police force should be the pride and not the shame to the country or to a State like GOA. I would desire that more be read into this statement. STUDY TOURS - SINGAPORE - POLICE UNIFORM - FINE COUNTRY- HUMEROUS NOTE Our government spends crores of rupees to send our legislators on study tours across the developed nations of the world. Do they learn anything at all? is a million dollar question. Once such merry jaunt was to a small country called Singapore, purportedly to study that country's policing systems. All they came home with is the color of its police uniform, terming Singapore - 'a police state'. I have spent the best part of my sailing life in Singapore, it being called the 'FINE' country. You throw a cigarette butt out of a taxi-cab and the taxi cab is fined $500/- without mercy. So the cabbies do not allow its passengers to throw out their cigarette butts. The police is supposed to implement the laws, rules and regulations that you, sir, the executive, formulate. On a humorous note I would like to say here that --- if we had followed the Singapore system of governance, I am sure most of our 40 legislators as well as half of our police force would be behind bars for breaking and/or failing to enforce the laws of the land. I would want my following few suggestions recorded and thought over seriously. 1.. NO INTERFERENCE: The Goa police department must be freed from political executive interference. The police must be allowed to do their job for which they are trained. 2.. EQUIPPED TO FIGHT CRIME WITH MODERN METHODS. Equipped The Goa police department must be equipped to fight crime with modern methods. 3.. PROVIDE ADEQUATE TRANSPORT/PATROL VEHICLES: Police stations must be provided with adequate transport/patrol vehicles fitted with modern communication/detecting systems such as radar/Doppler systems for police traffic cells to. Goa government has invested the tax payer's money to purchase INTERCEPTORS. Sorry to say that these only detect helmet less riders, And the mode they use to stop the evading riders on Highways is their football playing skills , resulting in severe accidents which could be translated into deaths. Ex. The case of Interceptor NO.4 at Porvorim on May 21 2008 4.. CIVILIAN SERVICES BOARD: The police force must be brought under the 'CIVILIAN SERVICES BOARD' where this board shall be responsible for over-seeing the conduct of the police department including recruitment/transfers of its personnel. 5.. PUBLIC RELATIONS BUREAU: Police Headquarters must be installed with a PUBLIC RELATIONS BUREAU handled by a capable police officer who will not only improvise and/or improve the public relations at the police HQ but will also be responsible to set up PR- desks at all Police stations. Presently, and as always, our public relations in general is ZERO. That Goa police must excel with at least 80% if not a 100% in Public Relations is a foregone conclusion since Goa is a world acclaimed tourist destination. Therefore, building and maintaining the police-public confidence is super-most and essential . 6.. GOOD MANERISM: ASpecial training programmes must be designed to train police personnel in matters of good mannerism, handling of telephone instrument and/or the wireless system; public psychology (including mob psychology) and techniques to handle mobs, demonstrations and morchas that are likely to become violent, without resorting to unnecessary violence. 7.. IOs Investigating Officers (IOs) in criminal cases must be held accountable for shoddy/poor or unsatisfactory investigations resulting in cases being dismissed by Courts. These must be taken into account at the time of considering promotions. 8.. NIGHT PATROL - DEBRIS : Chronic absence of police on regular beats and patrolling during the night hours must be addressed on a war footing. Apart from crimes like robberies etc being committed, lawlessness reigns high with vehicles such as tempos and trucks dumping debris and garbage on unsuspectingly clean roadsides by night. 9.. HOAX FINANCIAL OTHER INSTITUTIONS: Police department must start a vigilance cells to detect hoax financial institutions (NBFCs) advertising and operating from hotel rooms. Also to control the chronic proliferation of sales persons doing unchecked door to door rounds. 10.. FOREIGN NATIONALS - EXCLUSIVE CLUBS: No foreign national on tourist visa must be allowed to overstay or indulge in business activities not compatible with the visa held. 11.. ILLICIT TRADES: Watch on the conduct of illicit trades such as prostitution through massage parlors etc; drugs, liquor adulteration, pedophilia, fictitious recruitment agencies supposed training centers. Police personnel known to be collaborating with such persons must be dismissed from service. 12.. ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS ON SATURDAY/SUNDAY: Police, when contacted of Saturdays or Sundays with complaints of illegal constructions, must visit the site in question and ask for the relevant permission/license or NOCs issue by relevant authorities. If the concerned party is unable to produce the same, the structure/s must be demolished straight-away and the party booked appropriately. 13.. PRIVATE SECURITY PERSONNEL: Police department must find ways and means to initiate training of Private Security Personnel preferably under a retired police officer. 14.. POLICE VIGILANCE CELL MUST REALLY BE VIGILANT AND SHOULD NOT BE A SLEEPING CELL SO THAT CRIMES YET NOT COMMITTED MAY BE DETECTED AND PREVENTED FROM TAKING PLACE. THIS CELL MUST KEEP ITS EYE ON ITS SISTER DEPARTMENT WHICH IS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ITSELF AND ALSO ON OTHERS SUCH AS EXCISE, RTO, IMMIGRATION, ETC. WHERE BRIBE-TAKING AND CONDONNG OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT IS MERRILY OVERLOOKED. 15.. SEIZED ARTICLES/CASH: What system does the Goa Police follow to account for the cash and other items such as drugs etc. seized? We often read in the newspapers that drugs worth so and so have been destroyed. 16.. And finally, The feud between the Police and the Goa State Police Complaint Authority - GSPCA has started spilling out in the public arena and this must not be allowed to exacerbate. I have mentioned above that the vigilance cell must keep an eye on the police. But this must be done solely to maintain proper law and order without crossing sensitive boundaries which would amount to unnecessary interference in the working of both the agencies. If this happens, the only loser will be the general public. (Floriano C. Lobo) Gen. Secretary, Goa Su-Raj Party Registered Office: 383A Pirazona, Moira Bardez Goa. Ph: 2470223 M: 9890470896
