Team Herald
PANJIM: After discovering that personnel of the Indian Reserve Battalion (IRBn) who were reporting late, reporting drunk, or staying absent from duty altogether, were addicted to alcohol, the Goa police have launched a counselling programme, in a bid to reform them.
As many as 24 IRBn constables believed to be alcoholics have been identified and asked to report to the IRBn camp at Altinho at 9 am on Thursday.
In a bid to reform these young alcoholic IRBn constables, the Goa Police have launched a counselling programme. While the duration of these counselling sessions is not known, the constables will be stationed at the GRP, Altinho in uniforms with full riot gear from 9.30 am to 6 pm for day shift duty, and at the IRBn Camp at Kadamba, Ribandar, during the night hours.
Dinanath Monkar attached to the Headquarters, IRBn, will be the supervisory officer watching over these constables.
PSI Monkar has been asked to conduct a roll call at 9 30 am, 12 30 pm, 3 pm and 6 pm every day to ensure that the constables do not have the chance to leave and get drunk during duty hours and to submit their attendance reports to the office of the Commandant of the IRBn, Altinho.
Sources said that the 24 IRBn personnel posted at different police stations have often been absent from duty and there were also reports of them being in an inebriated state during work hours.
“Even during deployment for election duty, most of them were absent. Many of them were also found in an inebriated state,” police sources told Herald.
