PUBLIC SAFETY: CRACKS IN THE SYSTEM | Manpower, mobility gaps undermine policing across Goa

What makes a town safe? Police patrols, functioning CCTV cameras and secure public spaces should be the basic requirements. Yet, across Goa, shortcomings in all three have left residents and public spaces vulnerable. Abandoned buildings provide hideouts for anti-social elements, while defunct surveillance cameras and gaps in police patrolling expose serious weaknesses in urban security. An on-ground assessment by Guilherme Almeida, Agnelo Pereira, Vibha Verma and Vikram Nayak