AIDA-Child Friendly Dimapur organised a workshop for police officials at AIDA training hall on October 27.
Dimapur, October 29 (MExN): AIDA-Child Friendly Dimapur organised a one-day workshop for the police officials at AIDA training hall under the theme, ‘Child Protection’ on October 27.
Altogether, 30 Special Juvenile Police and Women Police Constables from different police stations attended the workshop, a press release received here stated. The main objective of the workshop was to furnish the police personnel with suitable knowledge to effectively exercise their duty, ensure betterment protection of Child Rights and prevent abuse of minors, create amicable environment for children to express their problems openly to the concerned officers as often they have nobody else (especially in case of child sexual abuse by persons the child trust the most).
Rev Fr Roy George welcomed the participants headed by Dr Tiamenla Phom, ADCP, Tiasangla, Women and Juvenile, Officer-In-Charge, Women Police Cell and all the Special Juvenile Police from different Police station under Dimapur, Chümoukedima and Niuland. He briefed on the objective of ANMA Integrated Development Association (AIDA), Child Friendly Dimapur as well as the main intend of organizing the workshop. He encouraged the participants to identify collaborative measures to promote child rights and prevent violation and abuse to minor towards creating child friendly cities.
While speaking as a resource person, Sonile Seb, Retainer Lawyer, Dimapur District Legal Services Authority (DDLSA) shared on “The Juvenile Justice Care and Protection of children Act 2015 (Juvenile Justice Act)”. She emphasized on two categories of children who are protected under the Juvenile Justice (Children in conflict with law and children in need of care and protection), Institutional care and non-Institutional care provided for the Juveniles, three types of offences specified under Juvenile Justice Act 2005, general principles of Care and Protection for the children, Child Welfare Police Officer and Special Juvenile Police Units, procedure in relation to children in conflict with law and children in need of care and protection, victim compensation.
She emphasized on the removal of disqualification, destruction of records (Section 24 Clause 2 of the Act), runaway child in conflict with laws and Child Welfare Committee and briefed on the procedure in relation to children in need of care and protection, rehabilitation and social reintegration, registration of Institutions, Central Adoption Resource Agency, and other offences against children. She suggested the police officials to refer to the Juvenile Justice Act, Model rule 2007 rules to follow the rules and guidelines as stated in the model rule as well as to have more child friendly approach while dealing with child related cases. Later, an open discussion was initiated where queries related to JJ Act 2015 was put forward by the police officials to the resource person.
Earlier, Sr Jisha Joseph, Children Mobilization Officer, Child Friendly Dimapur has highlighted on the concept as well as the vision of AIDA-Child Friendly Dimapur. Garrol Lotha, Project Coordinator, Child Friendly Dimapur has initiated an interactive session and discussion on the measures to work collaboratively towards creating child friendly cities in Dimapur and Chümoukedima. Gaisanglung, Civil Society Mobilization Officer diligently moderated the workshop.
