Margao police maintain close vigil at Moti Dongor
HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, NOV 13
Nearly a week after violence erupted at Moti Dongor, the Margao police continues to maintain close vigil on the migrant inhabited hillock till date.
Though Margao police station in-charge, PI Santosh Desai claims that peace has returned to the hillock after stray clashes amongst rival political groups, the police have not yet withdrawn the force from the area.
If sources are to be believed, a police vehicle – which normally comes handy to attend to calls dialed on 100 number – is permanently stationed atop the hillock since Sunday last. That’s not all. Not to take any chances of a fresh flare up in the situation, the police have deployed police team headed by a Police sub-inspector, an Assistant sub-inspector, a head constable, besides a team of constables.
The continuous presence of the men-in-uniform on Moti Dongor may have helped to bring down frayed tempers, but the duty to the migrant inhabited hillock has turned a nuisance to the police men as well.
Sources in the know said the police have begun to question the logic of the continuous deployment of manpower at Moti Dongor when there are other pressing issues to be attended by the policemen.
Incidentally, while the police officers have been over enthusiastic to deploy force at Moti Dongor – considered the stronghold of the Chief Minister — , one hardly finds any police vehicle of officers making a round of the city at sensitive spots to keep anti-social activity at bay.
IN fact, the Margao Police station has nearly a dozen police officers of the rank of PI and PSIs, but one hardly find any officer taking a round of the city on grounds that they are too overburdened with official work at the police station.
