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----------------------------------------------- State policemen get pimps on the run ----------------------------------------------- The state police department's unprecedented drive against the prevalent flesh trade in the northern coastal belt has sent pimps and sex workers scurrying for cover, sources said.
With three cases being booked in less than two weeks, sources said that members of the sex trade are shifting their operations to other parts of the state. Calangute police Inspector Nolasco Raposo is spearheading the drive and has apparently enlisted the help of concerned citizens to bust the numerous sex rackets operating along the tourist belt.
The most recent arrest was made on Sunday when one Pramod Shirodkar, from Saligao, was arrested while found moving suspiciously outside a hotel. Besides recovering a mobile and other articles, which were allegedly stolen from unsuspecting tourists, the police also found that he was actively involved in supplying prostitutes to tourists.
Last week a CID Crime Branch team led by police inspector Bossuet Da Silva swooped down on a Calangute hotel where call girls from Kolkata and North East India were being supplied to tourists. The team arrested two pimps and four call girls in that operation. Before that, the Calangute police had also registered another similar case.
However, it is learnt that the police are in the process of tracking the kingpin of the racket, a native of Kerala who is suspected to be the source of all the sex workers being flooded into the belt . It is learnt that this man, identified only as Joseph, has developed an intricate network of hideouts and makeshift brothels all over North Goa, sources say.
Sources also say that a number of other well-known sex traders, worried by the police onslaught, have shifted their base. At least 20 girls, reportedly housed in a Candolim slum, have been shifted outside the jurisdiction of the Calangute police station in recent days.
This is the first time that the state police are launching such a drive and they have received widespread praise from local residents. --------------------------------------------- Gomantak Times 3/11/04 page 4 --------------------------------------------
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