MARGAO
In a community outreach initiative, newly-posted Goa Director General of Police, Jaspal Singh descended at the Margao district headquarters for an interaction with cross sections of society, including people from various religious denominations in a bid to improve policing in the State.
The initiative comes days ahead of the Eid festival scheduled in the first week of May and it assumes significance against the backdrop of recent communal incidents in the Port town of Vasco.
DGP also informed the citizens that in order to improve handling of public grievances, a new initiative of ‘Samadhan’ would be started from Saturday whereby all SDPOs would be available at their respective police stations and listen to the public grievances. Of late there were some complaints of discourteous behaviour by some policemen.
During the interaction, DGP Jaspal solicited suggestions from them to improve policing in the State. He stated that citizens are the most important stakeholders in the maintenance of peace and order in the State. “While it is the duty of the police to ensure crime control and maintain law and order in the State, the citizens are also policemen without uniform. They are the eyes and ears of the law enforcement agency. Without their active help, no force can maintain order in the society,” he said.
Saying that Goa occupies a unique position of an exemplar of communal harmony in the country, he requested people to maintain it so by ensuring vigil during celebration of festivals. He particularly stated that Eid-ul-Fitr should be celebrated with usual brotherhood and amity.
The DGP appealed to the people to assist police in verification of tenants as strangers may commit crime and run away and there would be no trace or trail left of them.
