Team Goemkarponn
Panaji: North Goa Police has expanded its preventive policing efforts in a bid to curb crime and strengthen public safety. The district has seen a significant scale-up in verification drives, night checks and targeted inspections of scrapyards and kabadi businesses.
According to SP North Rahul Gupta, 66,479 tenants and 33,123 domestic workers or labourers have undergone physical verification so far this year. During a recent drive in Pilerne, officers brought 13 tenants from West Bengal to the police station for questioning based on suspicion and placed them under preventive arrest. Police also initiated action against an owner who had failed to carry out mandatory tenant verification. With the Aadhaar-based verification system on the Goa Police app, more than 1,250 tenants have been verified through the digital route.
Night policing has also been tightened. Police said more than 30 nakabandis are set up nightly depending on staff availability, operating between 6 PM and 6 AM. These are monitored by Police Inspectors and senior officers who oversee checks on vehicles, patrol movements and area coverage. This year, officers have verified over 90,000 vehicles and two lakh individuals. Kilometer readings of patrolling vehicles are being recorded to ensure proper area coverage.
Scrapyards and kabadi outlets have come under closer scrutiny as well. Police verified 105 scrapyards and 221 kabadiwalas. One kabadiwala was found in possession of a fake Aadhaar card, prompting the registration of an FIR.
Officials said preventive action has resulted in 3,596 arrests so far this year. The district police has urged residents to use the Goa Police app for tenant and labour verification and to report suspicious activity to their nearest police station or by dialling 112.
