Chairman of Chhattisgarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights Yashwant Jain said that police need to be much more sensitive towards juvenile delinquents and stressed the need for appointment of special police officer in each police thana for adherence to Child Act provisions.
Jain was speaking in the day-long workshop organised here on Thursday for child welfare officers. The workshop was organised on the directives of the National legal Service Authority, New Delhi and the Supreme Court of India. In the workshop officials of the child police units set up in the police thanas of Raipur, Gariaband and Balodabazar districts were given training how to deal with juvenile delinquents.
Giving detailed information about the child delinquent Act, Jain called on police officials to act according to the provisions of the Child Act and asked to show sensitivity while dealing with juvenile delinquents. He asked the officials to avoid giving clothes of jail inmates, neither talk with them in loud voice nor beat them in custody. He asked the officials to appoint special child officer in every thana who will alone be authorised to interrogate child offenders and talk with them adhering fully to the provisions of the child Act.
In the training session District Sessions Judge, Director General of state Police, police superintendents of Raipur, Gariaband and Balodabazar districts, Psychologist Dr Sonia Pariyal, chairman of the Chhattisgarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Unicef official Prashant Das, chairman of Juvenile Justice Board Mamta Shukla, Superintendent of Juvenile Home Upendra Pandey and secretary of District legal Service Authority Manoj Prajapati were present.