Police should be aware of human trafficking issues and ways to tackle it : DGP Joykumar
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN

Imphal, June 06 2011: DGP, Manipur Police, Y Joykumar today said that police personnel should be well aware about the facts and trends of human trafficking to tackle the matter which has become a menace in the state.

Speaking in a training programme for Police Officers of the state police on human trafficking organised by the Manipur Police Department at the Banquet Hall, 1st MR, the DGP said that human trafficking is carried out for different reasons.

Many young girls are used in immoral activities by trafficking them to different places.

Children are misguided or are either sold for commercial purposes by trafficking them.

So in order to tackle the menace successfully, police personnel should make themselves fully aware of the facts and trends of human trafficking.

Besides taking up measures to prevent and initiatives to tackle it, they must also act with sincerity and should not hesitate to sacrifice their lives when the situation demands.

Speaking at the training programme, state DGP Y Joykumar delineated the inter-relation between human trafficking and lack of education and the consequent danger of children being easy targets of insurgent groups.

The DGP said that Manipur is beset with varied hues of problems which is not easily definable within the framework of child trafficking but resembling it nonetheless.

Children are taken outside the state in the pretext of providing free education or jobs.

Many NGOs sheltering orphans and destitute children mislead the people by cornering huge foreign funds, he said, adding that children thus trafficked often end up in sleazy entertainment business centres or have their body organs sold away by crooks.

The DGP further maintained that human trafficking most often occurs because of lack of education.

Therefore he sought the support of the education department to provide free and quality education to poor children who are easily susceptible to trafficking.

He also warned the police department to be on their toes to curb and break the structure that feeds on human trafficking.

The department must not, in any circumstances, allow children below 12 years of age to be sent outside the state, he said, adding that any application seeking permission on this matter must be summarily rejected.

Additional DGP LM Khoute, IGP Anand Prakash, Senior SP (CID) Dr S Ibomcha, SP (DGCR) Vandana Karki, Director Social Welfare G Seityabati and Member Secretary Child Welfare Committee Imphal East K Pradipkumar were the resource persons in the programme.

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