DGP Addresses Issues Related to Human Trafficking
Patna: January 3, 2008
Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) Ashish Ranjan Sinha, during a two-day training and awareness program in Patna on Thursday, said human trafficking remained a major issue affecting the state and the law-enforcement officials at all levels had a major role to play against this social vice.
"Our goal is to rid Bihar of this disgrace but it will take a highly coordinated effort on the part of all law enforcement agencies at all levels to ensure the network of human trafficking is broken and destroyed," Sinha said during the opening of the training session at the ATC meeting hall.
Ashok Kumar Gupta, ADG (CID), in his speech, emphasized the need for the awareness of human trafficking in Bihar and asked the police officials to remain sensitive and sympathetic to the needs of the victims who are, in many instances, fail to get justice in the hands of the law-enforcement officials.
Senior IPS P. M. Nayar, in his speech, presented several acts under the Indian Criminal Penal Code that could be used against those involved in human trafficking.
"The laws are there but there is a dire need for the enforcement of these laws," Nayar said.
Several senior police officials including Patna Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kundan Krishnan and Patna DIG Sunil Kumar participated in the training session.
Similar meets have been scheduled for Shahabad on January 8 and 9, and for Gaya on January 11 and 12.
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