DGP highlights social media role in tackling trafficking

SHILLONG: The newly appointed DGP of Meghalaya has laid emphasis on the role of social media in curbing human trafficking.
Addressing a gathering at the state-level conference on anti-human trafficking in the city on Wednesday, DGP R Chandranathan said, “Police alone cannot fight the menace of human trafficking. Police have to enter into strong partnership with NGOs, the media, especially the social media which has changed the way we think and the way policing is done and proper co-ordination with different departments of the government dealing with care and rehabilitation of trafficked victims.”
Chandranathan said police should identify the hot-spots of human trafficking because it “must have a place of origin, place of transit and place of destination”.
Police officers from across the state attended the conference that was organised by the Criminal Investigation Department.