The Delhi Police through its ‘Operation Milap’ has traced and reunited 74.6 percent of missing children this year in the National Capital. Police official said that other than maintaining law and order situation across the city, police also priortise to trace and reunite missing children with their family.
According to Dr Eish Singhal, the Public Relation Officer (PRO), Delhi Police, from January 1 to October, the Delhi Police has traced 2629 missing children out of 3507. While in the year 2019, 5412 reports regarding missing children were filed and police has traced 3336 children.
“Delhi Police Commissioner, S N Shrivastava in his interactions with senior officers had focused upon tracing of missing children and reuniting them with their families,” said the PRO.
“In an order released earlier and to encourage police personnel into tracing of “Missing Children”, without any delay the CP had also announced the grant of additional incentives including Out-of-Turn Promotion for any Constable/Head Constable, who recovers 50 or more missing children below the age of 14 years (15 children out of them of the age group less than 08 years) within a period of 12 calendar months and Asadharan Karya Puraskar for any Constable/Head Constable, who recovers 15 or more missing children below the age of 14 years (05 children out of them of the age group less than 08 years) within a period of 12 calendar months,” said the PRO.
“A special drive was carried out by all the Police Districts in the last 03 months to trace the children reported missing from various parts of Delhi. For this purpose, teams were constituted in all police stations of Delhi Police and this yielded noticeable results,” said the PRO.