PANJIM: The Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) will have an addition of four sniffer dogs as the elite unit of the Goa Police and will also be strengthening their network to identify habitual drug addicts and peddlers.
Outgoing Director General of Goa Police Mukesh Kumar Meena on Wednesday directed the ANC team to maintain strict vigil at crucial points to thwart possibility of drug trafficking.
“All necessary infrastructures shall be upgraded including more vehicles for pickets. Four narcotic sniffer dogs are being procured. Their services shall be utilised effectively,” he said at a seminar on coordination between police-prosecution-magistrates over improved convictions.
Meena further said that the coastal State should not be perceived as a drug destination, and it shall be motto of Goa Police to make Goa a drugs-free State.
“The perception about Goa State needs to be changed globally,” he said while emphasising that ANC and district police are directed to maintain strict vigil, intensify patrolling and checking at ‘State borders, airport, and railway stations to ensure that supply of drug is totally stopped/prevented and violators are dealt with heavy hand’.
The DGP, in his address also attended by ANC SP Mahesh Gaonkar and others, said that State intelligence machinery will collect information through their sources to identify habitual consumers/addicts and peddlers.
The Goa Police will publish a booklet with instructions to investigation officers specifying do’s and don’ts during investigation of drug cases to help them minimise errors. The incharge of police station are directed to review all cases under NDPS Act regularly while their superiors will guide and instruct them accordingly.
The DGP said that State Forensic Science Laboratory Goa is now equipped with all the latest gadgets to facilitate examination of all types of banned NDPS substances.
