Addressing Child Trafficking - Addl Inputs
Indian Police Foundation
Addressing Child Trafficking
1. Smart phone app could be created to report child trafficking
2. Whenever police find children begging on roads and signals, they should be taken to rescue homes
3. NGOs must be roped in to find and rescue trafficked children
4. RWAs should appoint committees to report any child found on the roads in their vicinity to police
5. A website could be created to report a suspicious/trafficked child
6. A searchable online national database of missing children should be created
7. In every village/town, a few people who have proved themselves to be selfless, non-communal, social, educated and so on, can be designated by the Government as Ambassadors against child trafficking
8. Police should create special cells in each district who could easily be reached by people who want to report such an incident
9. A toll free helpline could be started to report trafficking related issues
10. Each district should have a set up to randomly check the ownership of children when they are being taken around
11. formulate local citizen groups in tandem to moral policing, keep a track and inform on any suspicious activities
12. A dedicated link in all police websites which gives the national record of missing children, and also children found shall be available in public domain
13. Traffic police manning signals should be involved to aid rescuing children used for begging
14. People caught in case of child trafficking should be put into rigorous imprisonment
15. Strengthen community level child Protection Units formed under Integrated Child Protection Scheme to identify and monitor and respond to attempts of child trafficking in communities
16. Quickly repatriate survivors of trafficking across the border and ensure re-integration and prevent re-trafficking. more