Hyderabad: The Hyderabad police will be trained in dealing with victims of child pornography, online pornography and other forms of child sexual exploitation in a sensitive manner, Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar has said.
He was attending training workshop, ‘Choke the Demand’, organised by change.org about child pornography that shed a light on how there is a high demand for them for online pornography.
“The most targeted are the children coming from rural background and poverty hit families and we want our police force to be well equipped with dealing with victims of such crimes in a sensitive manner,” he said. He said that that they are also to be trained on cybercrimes and the evolving trends like social media and dark net that threaten children’s safety.
Over 100 senior police officers of the Hyderabad City Police participated in the two-day workshop focussed on pro-actively addressing commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Shikha Goel, additional commissioner of police, Hyderabad, said that crimes against children are on the rise across the country and not only here. “Child abuse often means commercial sexual exploitation and with pornography being used to blackmail and groom children into being sexually exploited for commercial gain,” she said, adding that as part of its mandate to curb violence against children, the Hyderabad City police has decided to proactively address child trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Roop Sen, Partner at Change Mantras, said, “Proactive measures like this workshop ensure that we are all better prepared to deal with this problem, not only in terms of improving police capacity to handle such crimes but also in terms of optimal utilisation of resou-rces to combat the upward trends in crimes against kids.”
Durga Nandini, Director Communications, Change.org, said, “Telangana has been at the forefront of addressing the issue of commercial exploitation of children. We would like to congratulate the Hyderabad police for taking the lead.”
