TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: The selection panel of Goa police, which is recruiting over 900 personnel into the force was stunned to learn that five of the applicants had a criminal record. Another 11 were ineligible as they failed pre-employment medical examination. Ten of these had colour blindness and one is suffering from cardio-vascular disease.
These applicants were on the verge of being inducted as constables as they had passed four key stages of the recruitment process closely watched by the selectors. The department has already finished the recruitment of rest of the candidates who will soon be inducted into the force.
Superintendent of Police (Headquarter) Arvind Gawas said that appointment letters of the newly recruited constables have already been dispatched. Those selected will have to undergo rigorous training from September 20, after Ganesh Chaturthi festival, at Police Training School (PTS), Valpoi.
Gawas elaborated that those five candidates who had their names in the police records were involved in cases of assault or accidents. “All the five cases are either pending trial or pending investigation. We therefore cancelled their appointments,” he explained.
Ironically, the verification of antecedents of the constables took much time although their medical reports were submitted to the department four months ago, in April. The 11 were declared unfit by the Goa Medical College after the first stage which included a medical test, by the department’s lone medical officer Dr Dattaprasad Nagvekar, was completed.
The medical officer had in fact detected 11 applicants with colour blindness, four with hernia and one suffering from severe heart disease.
“They were referred to the GMC and their medical board declared 10 patients with colour blindness unfit for the training while the 11th person’s report is pending. Those having hernia were declared fit after an operation while the heart patient also failed the test,” he said, when contacted.
The medical officer had examined 70 candidates each day and submitted medical reports to the headquarters in April.
With regards to the training of the remaining recruits, Gawas said 23 sub inspectors for the IRB cadre have begun their training at Central Training Centre of CRPF at Mudkhed in Nanded district, Maharashtra from Monday.
Training of the 450-odd IRB constables will begin only from October 16 after their antecedents are verified.
“Their antecedents are in the process of verification. Once this is completed, their appointment letters will be dispatched so that their training begins from October 16 at CRPF Recruit Training Centre in Tamil Nadu,” he said.
The results of the selection of additional 105 sub inspectors are pending.
