According to the latest news in the media, 5 Policemen including one Police Sub-Ispector were suspended for brutally like the barbarians, assaulting one seafarer Clint Rebello from Cuncolim. Though many of the Goans does not believe this suspension is genuine or it was just a tamasha to create a good image of Goa Police. Since time immemorial the image of Goa police was always bad, during the Portuguese regime a Goan especially a Catholic joining the Police force means considering you are joining a brothel to act as a “Cheddi” because police men then were considered as “Chedio”. Even if you are not a Cheddi you are ultimately forced to become and act as one. What I mean by a Cheddi here? I mean not only a woman who doles her body for a certain amount of time and money but also when a man doles his services not only to his department but also to his superiors blindly with an infinite allegiance.
During the Portuguese time some of the Portuguese Pakles used our third class Policemen as Pimps since many of them fit to be Pimps only coming from indecent and uncultured family background and also without proper educational background too, to get them Prostitutes because during that period young boys seldom used to join Police force as in that sector there were lot of discriminations and above all there was not much credibility nor dignity. For a upper level cultured Goan wearing Policeman’s Uniform means degrading his dignity because even those very few Goans who joined Police force were treated like slaves by their Portuguese superiors without much chance to rise in ranks. Overwhelming majority of Catholics preferred to remain jobless rather than wear the Policeman’s uniform, so undignified and so disgraceful the job of a Polieman was then and even this trend was carried forward later on too. To a certain extent this trend is still prevalent among certain Goans who are against the Police job becase of the dirty character of many of the dirty Policemen.
The nature of the Policeman's job is so bad that even if he is good in character and discipline before joining the Police force, once he is engaged with Police Job he is not likely to acquire all the bed habbits and attributes existing in the Police Departent. Normally the Policeman is very cruel and stone hearted and at moments he had to be one otherwise he cannot survive on his job, many times he is seually perverted because since he is wielding power he likes to exercise it against innocent and weak women who are their victims as arrestees for committing some crimes, the Policean is a vulgar in his tongue because he acquires this habbit by conversing in filthy language to deal with filthy people whom they arrest for committing filthy crimes, the Policemen normally is known to be mixing up not with decent people but only with rubbish people, good and decent people do not normally keep them in close proximity, many times the Policeman is boud to be a big thief robbing money and other valuables from the robbers bag when he catches the robbers and instead of handing over to his drpartment all the goods and money from the robbers he keeps for him half or major part of the loot and declares only partially. In this way he acquires immense wealth and becomes a crorepoti asily. In fact a Policeman willi not be a policeman unless he acquires all the bad habbits from Police departmet..
The disgraceful character of Goan Police force was clearly displayed in Cuncolim when an innocent Clint Rebello mercilessly manandled by the rascal policemen and earlier at Fatorda Stadium when the most disgraceful policemen acted like goondas and as traitors without their Police uniforms betrayed the innocent trio of father- mother - son and manhandled them mercilessly even the mother without taking into consideration her female characterisitcs. Are these Policemen really genuine Goan or are they bastaradised Goans the products of Salazar regime? It looks to me they were the illegitimate leftover products of Salazar regime and because they are so they rejovuneted acts of Salazar regime, no, sorry, even in Salazar regime such inhuman acts were not committed by the then Agente Monteiros.
The disgraceful character of Goan Police force was clearly displayed in Cuncolim when an innocent Clint Rebello mercilessly manandled by the rascal policemen and earlier at Fatorda Stadium when the most disgraceful policemen acted like goondas and as traitors without their Police uniforms betrayed the innocent trio of father- mother - son and manhandled them mercilessly even the mother without taking into consideration her female characterisitcs. Are these Policemen really genuine Goan or are they bastaradised Goans the products of Salazar regime? It looks to me they were the illegitimate leftover products of Salazar regime and because they are so they rejovuneted acts of Salazar regime, no, sorry, even in Salazar regime such inhuman acts were not committed by the then Agente Monteiros.
The Goan Policemen were commanded to do all the third class, dirty and cruel jobs. I was told by one Goan security personnel how while working under the deadly Agente Monteiro during Portuguese era, he was forced to commit deadly, dirty and disgraceful and cruel jobs. Having no other choice, he said he surrendered to Agente’s diktat otherwise Agente MONTEIRO would shoot him dead and later on give an excuse that this Goan was working clandestinely for Goa’s Freedom movement and while implanting a Bomb I shot him dead.
Can Agente Monteiro alone shoot an innocent man? Why not innocent man a cruel policeman or a gang of cruel man? If such disturbing incidents had to take place in occupied Jersalem or in Baluchistan or in the remote parts of Pakistan, the same Policemen who acted like crooks and hardened criminals would be shot dead not when they are in their Police Uniforms but when they are in their civilian clothes by directly and daringly confronting them by questioning them thus "the other day you assaulted me/us wthout sufficient reason, I had to bear all your cruelties because I had to respect your uniform. But now you are in civilian clothes, can you do the same again now when I am giving you an excuses? Come on now Mr.Policeman, Mr. Hawaldar and Mr. Inspector, if you have balls then show me your guts, you bloody rascal, you are a disgrace not only on Ploice Force,not only on Police department, not only on Government of Goa that employs you but you are a disgrace on human being because by acting thus you have brought disgrace on human being.
Moreover, if these incidents of Goa Police had to occur in some of the deadly South American countries, the affected laymen or their relatives or friends or wellwishers or people fighting forjustice against Police cruelties would kidnap the children or wives or sisters of those Policemen who acted brute with our Goan innocent persons. I dont advise such harsh above mentioned remedies for those culprit Policemen, it is not my doctrine, i dont propose the doctrine of "eye for an eye and tooth for tooth", this was an archaic doctrine base on the Law of Hamurabi the ancint King of Mesopotamia but surely I propose the decent law of meeting with those cruel Policemen and asking them in a decent manner why they acted so cruelly. if necessary even organise public meetings in the localities of these poliemen to put them into shame and also to their family members.
Can Agente Monteiro alone shoot an innocent man? Why not innocent man a cruel policeman or a gang of cruel man? If such disturbing incidents had to take place in occupied Jersalem or in Baluchistan or in the remote parts of Pakistan, the same Policemen who acted like crooks and hardened criminals would be shot dead not when they are in their Police Uniforms but when they are in their civilian clothes by directly and daringly confronting them by questioning them thus "the other day you assaulted me/us wthout sufficient reason, I had to bear all your cruelties because I had to respect your uniform. But now you are in civilian clothes, can you do the same again now when I am giving you an excuses? Come on now Mr.Policeman, Mr. Hawaldar and Mr. Inspector, if you have balls then show me your guts, you bloody rascal, you are a disgrace not only on Ploice Force,not only on Police department, not only on Government of Goa that employs you but you are a disgrace on human being because by acting thus you have brought disgrace on human being.
Moreover, if these incidents of Goa Police had to occur in some of the deadly South American countries, the affected laymen or their relatives or friends or wellwishers or people fighting forjustice against Police cruelties would kidnap the children or wives or sisters of those Policemen who acted brute with our Goan innocent persons. I dont advise such harsh above mentioned remedies for those culprit Policemen, it is not my doctrine, i dont propose the doctrine of "eye for an eye and tooth for tooth", this was an archaic doctrine base on the Law of Hamurabi the ancint King of Mesopotamia but surely I propose the decent law of meeting with those cruel Policemen and asking them in a decent manner why they acted so cruelly. if necessary even organise public meetings in the localities of these poliemen to put them into shame and also to their family members.
A. Veronica Fernandes.