Team Herald

MARGAO: The Inspector General of Police Jaspal Singh today visited and inspected the new place for the Navelim Police station. The Home Department plans to get the station functional by April.

It may be recalled that the Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar recently had announced of having a police station for every constituency and had announced to have 14 more police stations. The Navelim area presently falls in the Margao town police station jurisdiction and now it will be detached from Margao.

The IGP Goa Jaspal Singh, Superintendent of Police Headquarters Shekhar Prabhudesai, Superintendent of Police South Goa Arvind Gawas, DySP Traffic Prabodh Shirwaikar, Margao town Police Inspector Kapil Nayak and others were present at the inspection. 

The IGP inspected the present amenities at the cited site and said that they planned to inaugurate the police station on April 1, which got delayed.

IGP Singh said: "The staff strength of the Goa Police is less. This has been communicated to the Government of Goa. There are some vacant positions that need to be filled in and the proposal has been sent to the Government and that has been approved," said IGP Singh

The Sarpanch of Navelim said, "The ground floor of the Panchayat Complex has been selected for the Police station of Navelim. Until they find a permanent place the police station will be operated from this place," said the Sarpanch of Navelim.