Police training programmes held in Noney, Kpi
Source: The Sangai Express

Noney/Kpi, December 10 2020: FXB India Suraksha in association with Heuristic and Enhanced Action for Life (HEAL) and district police of Noney and Kangpokpi organized a one-day police training programme on December 8 & 9 in the two districts respectively.

The training programme focused on strengthening police responses in handling cases of human trafficking and child protection systems.

The main objective of the programme was to train the police officers on the existing laws and strengthen their mechanisms to ensure the protection and safety of the children as well as combat human trafficking.

A total of 28 and 34 police officers participated in the training programme in Noney and Kangpokpi respectively.

The programme was conducted to combat human trafficking and sexual abuse in Manipur with the support of ECPAT Luxembourg.

A Wungreiso Shangh, Project Officer, FXB India Suraksha, Ukhrul and Sunil Khoinaijam Meitei, Project Officer, Imphal were the resource persons for both the programmes.

Samir (MPS), Addl Superintendent of Police, Noney and L Misao (MPS), Addl Superintendent of Police, Kangpokpi were the chief guests of the respective programmes.

A Wungreiso Shangh spoke about the provisions and role of police as mentioned in the rules of.

Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 .

He also discussed various crimes against children especially sexual abuse at length during both the training programmes.

Sunil Khoinaijam Meitei spoke about various concepts related to human trafficking.

He, apart from discussing sections especially section 370 of the Indian Penal Code, also spoke about the steps to be taken up to combat organized crimes.

The training also involved the screening of short movies related to the training topics for better understanding of the participants.

Also, pre and post-tests were conducted to assess the knowledge of the police officers on the training topics.

In his concluding speech.

Samir (MPS), Addl.

Superintendent of Police, Noney, stressed upon the need for such training for enhancing knowledge as well as building their capacities.

He said, "This kind of training is needed every half-yearly, as Noney is located in the National Highway and is very vulnerable to organized crimes" .

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