Under a month long nationwide campaign against human trafficking during July 2022 GRP rescued 151 minor boys, 32 minor girls (total 183 minors) and three women from human trafickers and arrsted 47 persons involved in human trafficking.
Indian Railways being the main transport system of the country is used for human trafficking, through which victims are trafficked.
RPF has a system of redressal of complaints regarding safety of passengers and in the last five years RPF rescued 2178 people from the clutches of human traffickers.
Along with this, more than 65000 children and many women and men were saved and protected.
The RPF recently launched "Operation Aahat" against human trafficking campaign.
As part of this initiative, RPF has recently set up 750 Anti Human Trafficking Units (AHTUs) across the country, which will coordinate with police, AHTUs functioning in police stations, at district and state levels, intelligence units, NGOs and other stakeholders and in trains.
Taking effective action against human trafficking recently RPF has signed an MoU with an NGO named Association of Voluntary Action (AVA).
This organization is also known as Bachpan Bachao Andolan.
To accelerate these efforts, a month-long campaign against human trafficking was launched in July 2022 through the Railways.
The field units of the RPF were advised to work in coordination with the State Police, local legal agencies and other stakeholders to prevent trafficking and take prompt action on information received about trafficking cases.