Panaji, Nov 20 (PTI) The Goa police will increase night patrolling and ground-level policing to curb crimes in the state, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said.

The CM convened a high-level meeting of senior police officials on Wednesday evening in the wake of a recent rise in crime across the coastal state, which also sees a heavy tourist footfall.

Sawant told reporters after the meeting, “Strict instructions have been issued to the police that henceforth, cases like that of dacoity should not happen.” Seven dacoits attacked and looted a family of five in Vasco on Tuesday night after breaking into their seventh-floor apartment. This was the third major dacoity in the state, the earlier being reported from Dona Paula near Panaji and Mapusa town in North Goa.

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