Short-staffed Old Goa Police Station due to poll duties fails to solve murder, theft and vandalism cases

The proverbial long arm of the law is far from cracking the Christian Art Museum case, partially since Old Goa police station is facing acute shortage of staff as they have been diverted for poll related duties.

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PANJIM: The proverbial long arm of the law is far from cracking the Christian Art Museum case, partially since Old Goa police station is facing acute shortage of staff as they have been diverted for poll related duties.

With three police sub inspectors posted with flying squads since 20 days, the police station is left with just one inspector and couple of head constables and constables.

While the entire strength of PSIs have been roped-in for election duties, the police station does not even have assistant sub inspectors for assisting any crucial investigations into any case.

The merciless killing of 55-year-old security guard Luis Bogato on January 25 evening still remains undetected. One reason could be lack of staff.

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Police are yet to make a breakthrough in the case and one team has already returned from Panvel, empty handed.

The police station, located on the national highway, recently registered attack on the house of Fr Bismarck Dias but the probe is on at snail’s pace, for obvious reasons.

The lone inspector Edwin Colaco has been left with meagre lower rank officials who do not have the powers to investigate serious offences.

A representation to the Collector by senior police officers, in the matter, has not yielded results yet.

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