I would like to inform you that I travel frequently from Margao to the north of Goa for my business purposes and come across a lot of discrepancies wherein we do come across a lot of patrol cars manning the Highways but are stationary with at least 6 personnel in a car doing nothing be it controlling the traffic if there is a traffic-jam or an accident. These police men are either on their mobile phones, sleeping in the car or gossiping. The definition of a patrol car is to take rounds of the area in which they are assigned to and not sit in one spot because when people who are doing wrong see them then they will never be caught because they will quickly disconnect their mobiles on the Highways, quickly put on their seat belts, wear their helmets. On my many trips from the south to the north, I have seen these things happening.
Also where Indian tourists are concerned, have any of them been fined for spitting outside a bus, drinking beer on the roads, throwing empty glass bottles on the road, stopping their vehicles in our fields, urinating, or using these fields to empty their bowels, cooking bringing their own gas cylinders for the same or even throwing left-over garbage in the fields where they had a picnic. Is it not the duty of the patrolling officers to inquire into the same. The Government wants revenue and can get the same from these tourists who dirty our villages and towns and who will sleep on the roadside as they is no tourism law that says that they cannot do so. If a law is in place then fine them. We would like the Government of Goa to tell us how much fines they have collected from such ill-mannered tourists. Why are they not checked at the border points for gas cylinders, room reservations etc before they are allowed to enter Goa ?
Please ask these people to go to UAE, Singapore or Korea, Japan etc and see if they can do the same there. We have allowed people to do these things because of the laxity of the Police Department.
If still waters run deep then they ought to be stagnation of the waters and so will the patrol cars who should be constantly patrolling specially in crowded tourism areas and also on the Highways. There is no dearth of excuses that man-power is short. All we should understand is that there is man-power but the same is not put to the maximum of efficiency as proper training is not given to these men in uniform to implant the same and also no powers. Things should now change as the Government has said that tourism will increase by the years but if on one hand more people are coming to our land, and another disaster like a second airport at Mopa what about security issues, garbage problems, road widening, water problems, power problems, and our greenlands, hills, springs and water-ways destroyed.
