Police, WCD join hands to trace missing children
2 Sep 2014 11:24 PM GMT
While Delhi police will share its data regarding complaints of missing children, the WCD will share the data of the destitute children it takes into custody. The government has constituted three working groups to submit action plans prepared by them to the director of WCD within one month’s time.
‘WCD has a lot of information on children it takes into custody, such as physical description, photograph etc needed by the police to trace the family of the child. This will prove to be very important for the police to trace the missing children,’ said Satbir Bedi, principal secretary of social welfare and women and child development.
He also added if both the departments work together and share with each other relevant information, ‘it will help a great deal in solving many cases of missing childeren.’
Bedi further informed that a series of meetings are being held for review of the existing restoration process and formulating standard operating procedures (SOPs) for reuniting children with their families. She further said that the SOPs have been developed to fix a time-line for each and every action required to be taken at various stages of investigation.
‘It will ensure that the invesitgation is done in a time bound manner and responsibility is fixed for delays, if any’, she said.
‘WCD has a lot of information on children it takes into custody, such as physical description, photograph etc needed by the police to trace the family of the child. This will prove to be very important for the police to trace the missing children,’ said Satbir Bedi, principal secretary of social welfare and women and child development.
He also added if both the departments work together and share with each other relevant information, ‘it will help a great deal in solving many cases of missing childeren.’
Bedi further informed that a series of meetings are being held for review of the existing restoration process and formulating standard operating procedures (SOPs) for reuniting children with their families. She further said that the SOPs have been developed to fix a time-line for each and every action required to be taken at various stages of investigation.
‘It will ensure that the invesitgation is done in a time bound manner and responsibility is fixed for delays, if any’, she said.
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