Team Herald
VASCO: Twenty barrels with remnants of oil which are highly opaque viscous and containing high residues are kept in the open space within the Vasco police station since last nine years. These barrels were attached in some cases booked by the Vasco police some nine years ago.
To get rid of the same, the Vasco police have now requested district administration to issue orders to destroy the remnants of oil fill barrels which are corroding and left lying in the police station premises causing hindrance and health issues.
According to police, over the years, the oil from these 20 barrels has got leaked naturally as the barrels got corroded; thus, the same needs to be destroyed on priority.
Taking cognizance of the same, on January 2, Vasco police wrote to the South Goa District magistrate to issue orders to destroy the remnants of corroded barrels and its samples. Vasco police is now waiting for a formal order from the magistrate to destroy the same.
“We have made letter to the collector, South Goa, to issue us orders to destroy the 20 barrels with remnants of oil and we are waiting to receive some positive orders soon,” said a senior police officer from Vasco police station.
Police also claimed that these oil barrels are posing high health risk to the lives of policemen working at the police station and therefore before next monsoon if the same is not disposed off, then, there are high possibilities of more leakages of oil from the barrels in the next monsoon and this could be hazardous to environment in and around Vasco police station building.
Similar oil barrels seized by the Verna police have been lying in Verna police station premises as well as at Birla outpost under Verna police station. Oil from these corroded barrels too has started leaking day by day.
