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family members, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed.
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GOACAN to observe a Crime Prevention Awareness Fortnight
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GOACAN will observe a Crime Prevention Awareness Fortnight
from 17th September to positively harness consumer power to
respond to the rise in crimes at the village, Taluka, District and
State level.
During the fortnight GOACAN alongwith the village based
Consumer Forums will engage the officials of the Goa Police
in dialogue on the causes for the rising crime in the State and
the measures that need to be adopted at the community level.
The Consumer Forum volunteers will move proposals at the
respective Village Panchayat Gram Sabha meetings to discuss
the rising crime situation and possible interventions at the level
of the neighbourhood.
Forum volunteers will examine measures to make the Beat Police
system effective, the Tenant Verification system fully operational
and the Neighbourhood Crime Watch Cell a possibility.
The Consumer Forum volunteers will follow-up on the
presentation of the Annual State of the Law & Order,
Security and Crime Report by the Police Officers to the
respective Village Gram Sabha with the relevant
recommendations for community action.
GOACAN will pursue the setting up of two District level full
fledged Police Stations to handle the prevention and
investigation of Crimes against Women & Children. Besides
GOACAN will also pursue the setting up of a Crime Prevention
Education Cell at the State level which will concentrate
on educational institutions at School, Higher Secondary and
College level in collaboration with the NCC, NSS, CWC and
PTA's.
During the fortnight GOACAN will promote the preparation
of community level strategies to protect neighbourhoods,
markets, religious places and recreation areas from crime.
GOACAN will also petition the Tourism Department, Goa
Tourism Development Corporation, Govt. of India Tourist
Office and the Travel & Tourism Association of Goa to
prepare a special Crime Prevention Plan for the coastal
villages which encounter large domestic & foreign tourist
arrivals due to beach tourism.
GOACAN will also petition the Police Department to put
in place a separate Crime Prevention Plan for the benefit of
Senior Citizens who have received Identity Cards from the
Directorate of Social Welfare.
Meanwhile GOACAN invites consumers to send in their
suggestions & complaints on Crime Prevention by post to
GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao 403 601 or on email
to goa...@gmail.com
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GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK
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promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa
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GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao, Goa 403 601
GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507
mail: goa...@gmail.com Visit: http://goacan.blogspot.com
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