On initiative of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, home department finally decided to notify `Crisis Intervention Centre (CIC) in eleven districts to facilitate help to women and children who fell victim to human trafficking.
Government had already decided to constitute a State level `Task Force’ for continuous monitoring of human-trafficking particularly that of women. It may be mentioned that the government had also planned to further strengthen the Anti-Woman Trafficking Units by notifying them as `police station’. They also rewarded the policemen who would contribute in uniting a missing or trafficked person with it’s family under the `operation smile’ campaign in the State.
An official communiqué of the Home Department released on Friday evening confirmed that on direction of chief minister, they decided to constitute CIC in all eight zonal head-quarters as well as it Kannauj, Ghaziabad and Gautambudhnagar. In second phase, more districts will be covered after opening CIC, the communiqué added. In the meeting held under Principal secretary (home) Dewasheesh Panda, here on Friday, the officers directed to formulate a policy that how quick relief could be forwarded to victims so that they proper rehabilitation could be ensured.
Earlier also, it was decided to formulate a new law on verification for placement agency for domestic help, or agencies dealing with migrated labour and workers. To trained the officials dealing in the human trafficking, a `Standard Operational Procedure’ will be formulated and regular training programme will be organised. Sensitisation programmes for all the stakeholders has been already held through video-conferencing and field level training sessions. Special Training programme for sensitisation is also underway for all 35-Anti Human Trafficking Units of the State.
All the police stations were directed to take cases of missing of children on priority basis. Besides principal secretary, home, other senior officers along with some activists hailing from Sakti Vahini, the training partner of Police Department in Anti Human Trafficking, with active support of UNICEF had attended the meeting. It may be mentioned here that chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, had recently made the announcement of sensitising the whole state police machinery on Anti Human Trafficking. He directed to sensitise all the officials concerned in a systematic manner, involving not only the police officers but all stakeholders like Special Juvenile Police units, local NGOs, Officers of Women and Child department, District legal Services Authority, Child line, Transport, Railway, SSB etc.