Puttur: Anti-human Trafficking Unit Begins Functioning

Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (SP)

Puttur, Jun 17: The state department of home has begun work to give teeth to its ambitious plan to stop cases of human trafficking in the state. An anti human trafficking unit, set up under this plan, has started functioning in the premises of the town police station here. This unit will have jurisdiction over the entire Dakshina Kannada district.

Sub-inspector of the women’s police station here, Archana, will also be heading this new unit, while K Srikant, inspector of the town police station, will be in-charge officer. Two head constables and four constables form the other members of this team.

This unit will take up detection and investigation of incidents like child marriage, labour trafficking, abduction, theft of human body parts etc. After preliminary investigation, the cases will be handed over to police stations having jurisdiction over the area where the crime occurs.

It is learnt that the town has been chosen as the headquarters of the unit, as it cannot be started in Mangalore, which falls under the area of police commissionerate. In course of time, the office of the superintendent of police, having jurisdiction over rural areas of the district which do not come under the commissionerate, is planned to be shifted to this town.