‘Jagatsinghpur police assist desks not practical’
2 min read By Express News Service
JAGATSINGHPUR: Days after the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) launched a state-wide marketing campaign to achieve out to kids put up pandemic, a staff of the district baby welfare committee (CWC) has detected anomalies in functioning of Mahila and Sishu desks at police stations in Jagatsinghpur district.
Visiting Balikuda and Naugaon blocks on Friday, the CWC staff led by chairperson Bisesweri Mohanty discovered that the devoted assist desks for girls and kids on the police stations aren’t operational. The district has 13 police stations and the federal government has mandated Mahila and Sishu desk in all 537 police stations throughout the State to facilitate an built-in strategy in direction of crimes in opposition to ladies and kids. Each police station ought to have the assistance desk the place a girl officer is on obligation around the clock.
In Naugaon police station, the Mahila and Sishu helpdesk has no girl police officer and three victims are awaiting compensation underneath Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Likewise at Balikuda police station, there was no police personnel aside from a house guard on the staff’s arrival. Even the diary cost officer (DCO) was absent.
While there was a helpdesk for girls and kids, it was being managed by a male assistant sub inspector (ASI) as the feminine police officer in-charge was on maternity go away. But the ASI too was absent as he had been given further cost of one other police outpost, stated sources. Mohanty stated the staff has scheduled go to to all of the police stations to judge functioning of Mahila and Sishu desks underneath Sishu Sampark Yatra marketing campaign.
“SP Prakash R and other officials were informed about our visit. We have sent a letter to the SP regarding irregularities in the functioning of the Mahila Sishu desks and urged to activate those. Other police stations will be reviewed on January 27 and February 3,” she added. Meanwhile, Jagatsinghpur SDPO Priya Ranjan Satpathy admitted that there is no such thing as a girl police officer in Naugaon police station and steps are being taken to deploy one on the earliest. As regards Balikuda police station, the IIC was on go away when the CWC staff arrived, the SDPO stated.
