Top cop vows strict crackdown after gang war, assault on constables
Director General of Police Alok Kumar is welcomed at the South Goa district police headquarters on Monday noon by district police chief, SP Tikam Singh Verma.
MARGAO
Director General of Police Alok Kumar on Monday sent a warning loud and clear to anti-social and criminal elements that the Goa Police will not allow any gangs to hold law-abiding citizens to ransom.
In fact, the DGP went on to say that the Goa Police will not allow the goons to "turn Goa into Mirzapur".
The DGP, along with DIG K R Chaurasia, descended on the South Goa district police headquarters on Monday noon to review the law and order situation against the backdrop of the gang war that erupted on the Margao-Colva road last week and the recent murderous assault on two police constables at Betul by construction workers from Jharkhand.
The DGP did not make bones about the fact that his visit to the district police headquarters was to review the recent gang war shootout and to send a message to the men in uniform to come down heavily on anti-social and criminal elements.
He said both the North and South Goa district police, along with the Crime Branch, are working in tandem to crack down on gangs indulging in lawlessness.
“We have taken a review of the action initiated by the police in view of the gang war incident. Police are working in the right direction. I want to give a clear message to the anti-social and criminal elements that anti-social activity will not be accepted,” he asserted.
When the media questioned whether Goa is slowly going the Mirzapur way, the state of lawlessness depicted in crime serials, the DGP said, “The Goa Police will not allow such a situation in Goa. I want to make it very clear to all the goons that they will not have an upper hand. We will crack down on these elements.”
On Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s statement that the government will crack a whip against illegal security agencies, the DGP said the local police are working on the CM’s instructions. He, however, requested the people to hire manpower only from licensed security agencies to meet their requirements. “The police will identify the illegal security agencies and initiate legal action,” he warned.
When the media drew the DGP’s attention to the murderous attack on the two police constables attached to the Cuncolim police station, he said the Cuncolim police have arrested the workers from Jharkhand involved in the assault. “I have given instructions to the police to ensure that such incidents are not repeated in the future,” he added.
