Margao: The state’s newly established intelligence unit, the intelligence fusion centre, PRISM, resolved five missing person cases involving seven individuals within its first week of operations, the crime branch announced on Friday.Inaugurated recently by chief minister Pramod Sawant, PRISM operates out of crime branch headquarters in Ribandar as a centralised intelligence and monitoring unit. Its mandate includes reviewing missing person reports (MPRs) at the state level, conducting telecom and technical analysis, and coordinating follow-up across police stations.Among the resolved cases, three persons from Odisha — a 20-year-old man, his 19-year-old wife, and a 20-year-old friend — had gone missing together from Calangute, with their mobile phones switched off. PRISM established independent contact with all three, confirmed they were safe, and counselled them to appear before Calangute police station. In another case in Mapusa, a 35-year-old woman whose husband feared she travelled to Kerala was located by PRISM within Goa itself and directed to report to the local police station.The other three cases involved a 20-year-old man from Old Goa who left home without informing his parents, a 19-year-old girl from Ponda whose father filed a complaint, and a woman reported missing by her sister at Maina Curtorim. All were successfully traced and brought before their respective police stations for legal formalities.Crime branch SP Rahul Gupta credited PRISM’s “intelligence-driven approach” and “continuous technological intervention” for the success.
