Indian Cops Choose High-Profile Crime Over Trafficking

In an article posted today in The Times of India, Kaniza Garari reports that Indian cops would rather choose to investigate "bandobast" crimes rather than focus on investigating lower profile crimes with little information available such as the sex trafficking of women and children.

From the article:

[Police] Assignments are picked on the basis of what is high profile and what is not. While detection of crime is rated as challenging and high profile, preventing trafficking is considered less challenging and less prestigious an assignment.

In fact, it is last on the list of priorities of many a policemen. "Detection of traffickers or touts is on an abysmally low level," says DIG, M Ratan. "It is important for the police to source information, channelise resources and get inputs on the who, what and where of trafficking of women and children."

As the police addresses this issue, it is aware of the growing lethargy and feels that a brain storming session will help get the force back into action to tackle the age old crime

For more information about trafficking of women and children in India, see the Apne Aap website, an organization headquartered in Calcutta that helps victims. "Apne Aap" means "self-help" in Hindi.