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Training of Police Officers for Empowering and Capacity Building on Anti Human trafficking 

Table of Contents 

Background ................................................................................................. 1 

Overview of Training................................................................................... 1 

Outcome ...................................................................................................... 4 

Workshop No. 1......................................................................................... 6 

Workshop No. 2.........................................................................................13 

Workshop No. 3........................................................................................20 

Workshop No. 4........................................................................................27 

Workshop No. 5........................................................................................33 

Workshop No. 6........................................................................................40 

Workshop No. 7.........................................................................................46 

Workshop No. 8........................................................................................53 

Workshop No. 9........................................................................................60 

Workshop No. 10......................................................................................68 

Workshop No. 11......................................................................................76 

Workshop No. 12......................................................................................84 

Workshop No. 13......................................................................................90 

Workshop No. 14......................................................................................98 

Workshop No. 15....................................................................................105 

Workshop No. 16....................................................................................113 

Workshop No. 17....................................................................................120 

Workshop No. 18....................................................................................128 

Workshop No. 19....................................................................................134 

Workshop No. 20....................................................................................140 

Workshop No. 21....................................................................................146 

Workshop No. 22....................................................................................152 

Workshop No. 23.....................................................................................158


Background 

Trafficking is a growing crime in India. UNODC, as an executive agency and partner 

with the joint initiative of the Govt. of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, has launched a 

project titled “Strengthening the law enforcement response in India against trafficking in 

humans through training and capacity building” in Maharastra, Goa, West Bengal, 

Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. The objective of the project is to work towards the final goal 

of preventing trafficking of persons into and within India. The strategy it adopts is to 

strengthen the capacity of Indian law enforcement officials by raising their awareness on 

trafficking and build their capacity to better investigate and prosecute perpetrators of this 

crime so trafficking can become a menace of the past. The states selected for the training 

represent source, destination and transit areas for human trafficking of differing types 

(e.g., trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation, child labour, 

bonded labour, etc.). 

Overview of Training 

In 2006 the first round of training was held in West Bengal. An independent assessment 

of training was also conducted at the end of this phase. The learning was incorporated in 

the second phase of training programme documented in this report. Contact Base 

organised training programme for Constables and ASIs in the second phase which 

commenced in August, 2007. 23 two-days workshops were held in eleven districts of 

West Bengal. Contact Base conducted the workshops along with trainers from Sanlaap, 

SLARTC, Barrackpore Police Training College and Kolkata Police. The training plan 

was finalised in consultation with ADG, Training’s office, UNODC and the training 

partners. The following tables provide information on supporting official strength and 

the participation in different workshops. 

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The training programme clarified concepts on trafficking so that better awareness, 

understanding and sensitivity leads to proactive anti trafficking action by police 

personnel. Participants were then sensitised on appropriate laws and procedures that 

should be used when confronted with a specific trafficking case. The programme also 

emphasized on the importance of good investigation and evidence collection, as this 

could make a difference in prosecuting the accused. Special focus was given on survivors 

of trafficking. The goal was to bring about attitudinal orientation by sensitising the police 

about mental health situation of the victims and the importance of rehabilitation for 

mainstreaming of the victim into society. Building of communication skills was 

facilitated through variety of theatre in development activities. Discussions and theatrebased 

activities were held to improve help seeking behaviour so that police recognise the 

importance of collective action to combat trafficking. Questionnaire was used to assess 

level of awareness before the workshop and improvement after the workshop. The 

particpants were given resource kits comprising of books and information directory on 

child and woman trafficking by SLARTC & Sanlaap. 

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The following provides an outline of the workshops. 

Day 1 

Registration and inaugural address 

Introduction and sharing of workshop objectives 

Ice breaking activities 

Pre-workshop evaluation 

Clarifying Concepts 

Identifying victims of trafficking 

Identifying traffickers and offenders 

Theatre based activities to build attitudinal skills 

Break 

Laws and Procedures on commercial sexual exploitation 

Theatre based activities to build communication skills 

Assisting police officials in investigation and prosecution of trafficking crimes 

Thought provoker 

Day 2 

Warm up and recapitulation 

Laws and procedures on exploitative labour, JJ Act etc. 

Story telling session on needs of survivor 

Legal and administrative processes in rescue 

Mental health issues and ‘best interests of survivor’ 

Break 

Attitudinal and Communication skill building using theatre based activities 

Interviewing victims, Counselling, Empowerment, Rehabilitation issues, 

Restoration, Repatriation, Reintegration, Trans border transfer issues 

Role playing 

Group Discussion 

Prevention of trafficking 

Discussion on Plan of Action 

Post training evaluation 

The participants appreciated the content of the training programme , organization and 

pace of training. The innovative use of theatre in development methodologies was well 

appreciated. All the resource persons were appreciated in the post workshop feedback 

sessions. 

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Outcome 

446 Constables and 283 ASIs attended the training programmes. 130 were women 

participants. The training programme definitely led to an improved awareness on 

ramifications of training. The two-day workshop had a positive outcome on the police 

officials of all police stations. 

In general it was found that most participants knew about trafficking in women for 

commercial sexual exploitation. They were not aware of the various laws, which may be 

enforced to strengthen prosecution of crime. As for example, we found that for victims of 

cross border trafficking they are not aware about ‘repatriation’ and usually follow ‘push 

back approach’. Participants who had already dealt with cases of trafficking were found 

to be more aware of laws and procedures. Officials of certain police stations had heard 

about trafficking but they were not yet aware in detail of ramifications of trafficking, who 

could be a trafficker, who could become a victim of trafficking, what happens to 

trafficked people, etc. They often mistook prostitution and trafficking for the same thing. 

Some of the police officials had no knowledge of ITPA at all. Those who knew about 

ITPA before the workshop had no in-depth knowledge of the different sections of ITPA. 

Many did not know how to treat victims or about psycho-social issues. People were 

found to have opinion that a victim of trafficking was to be accused too, since the victim 

had engaged in the illegal trade of flesh. 

Comments given by the officials after the workshop showed an increase of awareness 

concerning trafficking, which included the realisation of the actual threat that trafficking 

poses for our society. They furthermore mentioned that they now understood the different 

laws like ITPA, JJ act and Foreigner’s act and that they have learned how to investigate 

and collect evidence properly. They also said that they would now make use of the 

appropriate laws mentioned in the workshops. For many their perception of the survivor 

had changed. They said that they now know how to communicate with a rescued victim 

and they are aware that there should always be a lady police official present during an 

interview with a rescued victim. In all the feedback sessions, many participants said that, 

now that they are aware of their duty and rights as a police officer, they would do 

whatever they can to stop trafficking within their area. The officials mentioned that from 

now on if they suspect cases of trafficking they would immediately inform their 

superiors. They were of the opinion that it was very important to spread awareness to as 

many people possible, and, as a next step, combine forces of police, NGOs, Panchayats 

and local people to fight trafficking. Several participants pointed out that that economic 

conditions of people should be improved and social maladies like child marriage and 

dowry should be strictly stopped to decrease vulnerability factors. Furthermore, several 

participants mentioned it was important to create a comfort zone for the victim while 

being in the rescuing process, this to ensure a successful rehabilitation later on. Some 

participants were of the opinion that traffickers caught, should have a special exemplary 

punishment. 

The main barriers for the participants to successfully combat trafficking, is lack of 

manpower, time, infrastructure and communication and the fact that trafficking is not yet 

priority of crime prevention. Other problems mentioned were the lack of female officials, 

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absence of a proper shelter for victims of trafficking, lack of awareness all around them 

and gaps between reality and ideal work environment mentioned during the workshop. 

The following table lists the pre workshop questions and the improvement in awareness 

of achieved. More than 90% of the respondents gave correct answer after the workshop. 

Question : The participants were asked to 

indicate whether the following was true. 

Preworkshop 

(%) 

Post 

workshop(%) 

Improvement 

(%) 

Q1. Trafficking and prostitution are not same. 81 92 14 

Q2. Trafficked persons are also called soliciting 49 89 81 

persons under the law. 

Q3. Trafficked person indulges in flesh trade 54 87 62 

and is therefore a criminal 

Q4. ‘Customers’ can never be arrested under 59 88 50 

ITPA as they have committed no crime. 

Q5. An adult woman can never be trafficked. 62 86 38 

Q6. Section 511 IPC is the appropriate section to 50 90 80 

deal with trafficking. 

Q7. A brothel house can be ordered to be closed 45 85 88 

only by a judicial magistrate. 

Q8. The scene of crime in case of trafficking is 76 94 23 

only the brothel room where sexual act takes 

place. 

Q9. The scope of ITPA is limited , and it does 56 89 59 

not apply to a private house where a massage 

parlour is being run even if a trafficked woman 

is being made to indulge in sexual acts under the 

guise of running a massage parlour. 

Q 10. Trafficking is only done for the purposes 

of prostitution. 

79 95 20 

Percentage of correct response 

Knowledge Improvement 

The training programme also targeted establishing a 

100% 

90% 

feedback mechanism on efficacy of the training. The 

following are some of the feedback received. 

80% 

70% 

• An ASI from Hanskhali, Nadia narrated the following 

60% 

Pre-Workshop 

cases that have happened recently. A girl was 

50% 

Post-Workshop trafficked under the false pretext of marriage; in 

40% 

30% 

another case there was attempt of trafficking of a girl 

20% 

10% 

0% 

with the false promise of providing her a job as a 

domestic help. In both the cases the victims were 

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 

rescued. Investigation is on under IPC. 

Question No. 

• Another ASI from Falta, South 24 Pgs. told us about 

Overall 51% of Knowledge Improvement Asma Bibi a trafficked victim who was rescued at 

Pune and with assistance of West Bengal police was 

handed over to her family. 

• There is a marked increase in awareness levels amongst police officials on the issue and their crucial role 

in Anti Human Trafficking. 

• A commitment towards taking appropriate steps in prevention could also be seen. 

• More so is the fact that they have started relating the learnings from the workshop with the facts of field 

and also are prioritizing the issue into their chartered responsibilities. 

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Workshop No. 1 

District : North 24 Parganas Workshop Dates: 17-18 th August, 2007 

Venue : Police Computer Cell, Police Record Bhawan, Salt Lake, Kolkata 

Resource Persons 

Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Ananya Bhattacharya, Sushanta Mukherjee, Subroto Dey, 

Suravi Sarkar 

Tapati Bhowmik 

Prasenjit Chakrabarty, Aloke Bera 

Samapti Banerjee, Indrani Chatterjee 

Participant Profile 

17 ASIs and 19 Constables from Titagarh, Bangaon,, Higalganj, Airport NS, Naihati, 

Khardaha, Hasnabad, Gaighata, Dumdum, Baranagar, Noapara, Barasat women cell, 

Doltala (HQ), Rajarhat, Amdanga, Deganga, Ashoknagar, Basirhat, Belghoriya, 

Sandeshkhali, Barasat, Menakha, Laketown, Swarupnagar, Nimta, Baguihati, Baduria, 

Haroa, Gopalnagar, Bidhannagar(N) police stations attended the workshop. The 

participants did not have prior experience in handling human trafficking cases. Rank and 

gender wise number of participants is detailed below. 

IG (Training) Shri R N Sarkar, IPS, inaugurated the training session. In addition, DSP 

(HQ) from N24, Shri Alok Choudhury (who is also the nodal officer for this training), 

Shri Ashok Chakrabarty (ROI) were also present. 

Workshop Details 

Day 1 

Rank M F Total 

ASI 16 1 17 

Constable 14 5 19 

Total 30 6 36 

Session Title & 

Purpose 

Introductory Session 

Description/ Remarks 

After a discussion with the participants on workshop goals and 

objectives, the participants were asked to close their eyes and clap 

as many times as the facilitator did. This helped everyone to 

concentrate. Then a simple activity was held on alertness where the 

participants stepped in or out of the circle as instructed by the 

facilitator. The participants who did not respond correctly 

introduced themselves. 

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Pre training evaluation 

Assessing prioritisation 

given to combating 

trafficking 

Clarifying concepts 

Sensitisation on IPC & 

ITPA 

Activity for improving 

observation and 

communication skills. 

Identifying traffickers, 

offenders, victims, 

Investigation 

During the pre training evaluation it was realised by the resource 

persons that though most of the participants knew that persons are 

trafficked for CSE but they were not very aware of other aspects 

like various other reasons of trafficking, ITPA and the difference 

between a victim and an accused and that any person having the 

knowledge of trafficking is punishable under the law and that even 

the customers are also exploiters. 

The participants prioritized the top three crimes affecting our 

society. They mentioned trafficking of women and children as one 

of the major problems. 

Power point presentation and participatory discussions facilitated 

clarification of concepts on Human Trafficking. The participants 

identified routes of trafficking in West Bengal, reasons of 

trafficking etc. In an activity where a safety net was built to protect 

a nine-year girl, the participants identified several stakeholders likeparents, 

teacher, neighbour, friend, Panchayat, police, NGO, 

Lawyers, local clubs etc. 

The participants did not know about ITPA. It was observed that the 

SOs felt that knowledge of law is not necessary, as they do not have 

any scope to apply the same. They were then sensitised on the 

importance of knowing relevant laws for strengthening prosecution 

and prevention of crime. 

The participants stood in a circle and were asked to look into the 

eyes of the person standing opposite to him or her. They were then 

asked to exchange places without losing eye contact. The 

participants felt that this activity helped in improving concentration, 

establishing a relationship and they realised that eye contact is an 

important aspect of effective communication. 

PTC resource persons held a detailed session with the participants 

on their role in identifying vulnerable persons, victims and 

traffickers in source, transit and destination areas and also the role 

of SOs during investigation. 

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Day 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 

recapitulation 

Laws and procedures 

on Exploitative 

Labour, Organ 

Transplantation, 

Foreigner’s Act, IT 

Act, JJ Act 

Mental health issues 

Rescue and post rescue 

care of victims 

Evidence collection 

and transfer, Rescue 

and post rescue care of 

victims, Restoration, 

Repatriation 

Rehabilitation issues 

Group discussion and 

presentation 

Prevention 

Plan of Action 

Feedback and 

Evaluation 


The participants were sensitised on how body language plays an 

important role in communication. They then recapitulated the 

previous day’s sessions. 

A discussion took place in which a case study was analysed where 

there were three minors and one of them had trafficked the other 

two, the participants identified who would be sent to JJB and who to 

CWC. Discussion helped in clarifying concepts. They were 

sensitised on proper procedure of repatriation instead of “push back” 

system followed. 

Several case studies were shared to sensitise the participants on the 

plight of survivors. 

PTC resource persons held a lecture-based session. The participants 

were not aware of proper procedures. They were sensitised on 

incorrect procedures like wrapping evidence in cotton wool and why 

it is considered incorrect. 

Sanlaap used power point presentation and held discussion to share 

seven core quality standards of rehabilitation. 

Two groups of participants gave presentation on the ‘Role of 

Community in stopping TIP’ and the ‘Role of Police in stopping 

TIP’. It was observed that they reiterated issues covered in different 

sessions like building awareness, ensuring rehabilitation, 

strengthening linkages between different stakeholders, ensuring 

exemplary punishment of offenders etc. 

SLARTC gave a presentation on networking between police, 

prosecutor & witness, importance of presentation of collected 

evidence etc. 

The participants mentioned that they would henceforth be in touch 

with NGOs working on AHT, use local cable channel to build 

awareness, attempt to collect intelligence on vulnerable areas and 

persons and also create awareness among their colleagues. They will 

also be more conscious about their behaviour with victims. 

The observation of the participants are summarised below. 

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Pre and Post training evaluation form: 

% of correct response 

Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 

Workshop Workshop 

1 Trafficking and prostitution are the same. 86 88 

2 Trafficked persons are also called as “soliciting 

persons” under the law. 

41 66 

3 Trafficked person indulges in flesh trade and is, 

therefore, a criminal. 

52 66 

4 “Customers” can never be arrested under ITPA 

because they have committed no crime. 

25 50 

5 An adult woman can never be trafficked. 27 44 

6 Section 511 IPC is the appropriate section to deal with 

attempt to trafficking. 

53 56 

7 A brothel house can be ordered to be closed only by a 

Judicial Magistrate. 

27 47 

8 The scene of crime in a case of trafficking is only the 

brothel room where sexual act takes place. 

80 80 

9 The scope of ITPA is limited, and it does not apply to 

a private house where a massage parlour is being run 

even if a trafficked woman is being made to indulge in 22 38 

sexual acts under the guise of running a massage 

parlour. 

10. Trafficking is only done for the purposes of 

prostitution. 

83 88 

Participant Feedback: 

The participants appreciated the workshop procedure and agreed that the different 

sessions added to their knowledge regarding the issue of Human Trafficking, which they 

previously lacked. A number of participants also said that they had very little idea about 

the legal aspects since the senior officials mainly deal with this. 

They also mentioned that their level of determination and conviction to stop the crime has 

increased to a great extent and they would assist their senior officers in this. Networking 

with local Community based organizations, NGOs would be an important part of their 

plan of action in this regard. 

Excerpts from the feedback of the participants: 

Understanding on human trafficking: 

According to the participants they now have clear concept of human trafficking 

and its ramifications and that it is an organised crime. As they had said earlier that 

they had very little knowledge. The workshop also elucidated on the differences 

between prostitution, trafficking, offenders and victims. They have learnt that 

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there are comprehensive laws to combat human trafficking and the law comes into 

force even in case of an attempt to traffic a person which was not known to them 

prior to the workshop 

The participants said that they have also learnt that while raiding a brothel or 

interviewing a victim they must be accompanied by lady police personnel. The 

discussion on anti-human trafficking was intriguing. “We didn’t know the 

situation was so appalling and how human rights are being violated. We will try 

to make aware as many people as possible. We will also discuss it with the girls 

and boys of the clubs of our area.” 

One of the participants said that “80% of the trafficked persons are forced into 

prostitution is an eye opener for me and we all must work together to combat 

human trafficking”. 

What needs to be done 

The participants felt that all section of people must be made aware of human 

trafficking and victims must be identified and all care has to be taken for their 

proper rehabilitation and not only police, but all other organizations, NGOs, clubs 

and common people must unite against this menace. 

They also felt that, to prevent human trafficking before it happens exemplary 

steps should be taken to punish the offenders. All victims, be it men, women, or 

children need to be protected and all must empathise with them and make 

arrangement for their rehabilitation with other concerned authority. 

What they can do as police personnel: 

According to the participants during duty hours and out of it they must keep a 

watch and if they find anything suspicious they must interrogate that person. They 

should also impart the knowledge gained in the workshop to other police 

personnel who could not attend the workshop. 

The participants said that have realised that even a small contribution to save a 

person or prevent trafficking can make a big difference. They said, they should 

have good liaison with the NGOs and other organizations. “We should have 

intelligence about traffickers.” 

Not only as police personnel, they said but also as a common and responsible 

citizen the participants would have better relation with the community. They 

would inform the community about human trafficking. 

Problems: 

According to the participants sometimes there are gaps between what they are 

taught in the training and working in the field, still they said they would try to 

apply what they had learnt in the workshop. 

The participants opined that after attending the workshop they have learnt 

teamwork can combat trafficking at the same time they said they are occupied 

with so many work that they need to have a especial cell to combat Human 

Trafficking in every district. Especially in the vulnerable districts. 

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Assessment of the workshop by the participants, percentage wise: 

Question 

Very 

Good 

Good OK Poor 

1 Contents covered were adequate to reach the 

61 38 

objective. 

2 Content was presented at the appropriate level. 38 61 

3 Sessions were well organized and well paced. 75 25 

4 Methodologies were appropriate to make the training 

interesting. 

52 44 2 

Assessment of resource persons by the participants, percentage wise: 

Sl. 

Very 

Option 

No. 

Good 

Sl. No. OK Poor 

Contact Base 55 16 36 47 

SLARTC 23 36 27 22 

SANLAAP 2 11 2 

PTC 13 2 

List of Participants: 

Sl. 

No. 

Name Designation Posted at Phone 

1 Abhijit Saha ASI - 1842 Tilagarh PS 9831207365 

2 Baburam Mandi ASI - 1882 Bongaon PS 9434614025 

3 Biswanath Majumder ASI-3624 Hingalganj PS 9434617253 

4 Md. Rajaul Islam Molla ASI - 1427 Airport PS 9836235312 

5 Somnath Dey ASI - 1541 NSCBJ Airport PS 9433532015 

6 Gopal Ch. Chandra ASI - 727 BDN (S) PS 9331972094 

7 Jawaharlal Mazumder ASI -V- 295 Naihati PS 25812389 

8 Susanta Kr. Ghosh ASI - 3925 Khardah PS 25532859 

9 Amal Pali Mandal C/ 1320 Hasnabad 234480/9932157336 

10 Binoy Kr. Halder Constable - 193 Gaighata PS 9434244593 

11 Md. Fajlul Hoque C/2106 DumDum 25514167 

12 Judhistir Barman C/1631 Baranagar PS 

13 Labanyamoy Saha C/661 Noapara PS 9474479608 

14 Taniya Sarkar LC/ - 267 Barasat PS 9933741316 

15 Moma Chatterjee LC/ - 2553 Dohala HQ 9434223402 

16 RN Sharma ASI - 3998 Rajarhat PS 9831226507 

17 Silajit Sadhukha C/ 772 Rajarhat PS 9433615472 

18 Swpan Kr. Biswas ASI - 3027 Amdanga PS 

19 Swapan Bakshi SI - 20 Deganga PS 

20 Mousumi Haldar L/C - 2559 Doltola Police Line 9231333749 

21 Banashree Kar L/C - 2555 Doltola Police Line 9433808234 

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22 Mousumi Biswas L/C 4005 Doltola Police Line 9932049985 

23 Nandadulal Dutta C/ 1727 Ashoke Nagar PS 9903227344 

24 Sushil Chakraborty ASI - 2512 Basirhat PS 9474663167 

25 Sri Alok Choudhuri DSP - HQ Nodol Officer 9433455955 

26 

Sri Ashok Kr. 

Chakraborty 

ROI Doltola 

Asstt. Nodal 

Officers 9433530638 

27 Sk Kamaruzaman C/ 1822 Belghoria 25531717 

28 Madhusudan Dey C/ 3671 Sandashkhali 9433888850 

29 Animesh Ch Das ASI of Police Barasat PS 9474125208 

30 Abdul Jalil Molla C/ 1300 Minakha 9733651808 

31 SK Jakir Hossin ASI - 1554 Laru Town PS 9831282067 

32 Jagadish Biswas ASI of Police Nimta 9433777068 

Lady Assistant Sub 

Inspector Baguiati PS 9874268420 

33 Sima Das 

34 Nimai Ch Bairagya Constable Baduria PS 9734269264 

35 Ratan Kumar Das Constable Swarup Nagar PS 25838868 

36 Swapan Chkraborty Constable Haroa PS 9733739502 

37 Bijan Biswas C/ 3859 Gopalnagar PS 260232 

38 Jayantanath Guha ASI - 4132 Bidhannagar (N) 9433933703 

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District : North 24 Parganas Workshop Dates: 20 th -21 st August, 2007 

Venue : Police Computer Cell, Police Record Bhawan, Salt Lake, Kolkata 


Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Ananya Bhattacharya, Sushanta Mukherjee, Subroto Dey, 

Suravi Sarkar 

Sanchita Mitra 

Prasenjit Chakrabarty, Dibbendu Hati, 



15 ASIs and 16 Constables from Titagarh, Bangaon, Higalganj, Airport NS, Naihati, 

Khardaha, Hasnabad, Gaighata, Dumdum, Baranagar, Noapara, Barasat Women Cell, 

Doltala (HQ), Rajarhat, Amdanga, Deganga, Ashoknagar, Basirhat, Belghoriya, 

Sandeshkhali, Barasat, Menakha, Laketown, Swarupnagar, Nimta, Baguihati, Baduria, 

Haroa, Gopalnagar, Bidhannagar (N) Police Stations attended the workshop. The 

participants did not have prior experience in handling human trafficking cases. Rank and 


In addition, DSP (HQ) from N24, Shri Alok Choudhury (who is also the nodal officer for 

this training), and Shri Ashok Chakrabarty (ROI) were also present in the workshop 


Day 1 


ASI 14 1 15 


Total 25 6 31 


Purpose 



Assessing 

prioritisation given to 


After a short discussion on the workshop goals and objectives with 

the participants, the participants were asked to close their eyes and 

clap as many times as the facilitator did. This helped everyone to 


participants were to follow direction from the facilitator and raise 

their right hand when the facilitator says left and left hand when the 

facilitator says right. Whoever made the mistake or lost 

concentration was asked to introduce himself. 

Observations are recorded in the table below. 

The participants identified top three crimes affecting our society. 

They mentioned trafficking of women and children, domestic 

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combating trafficking 




Investigation 


on CSE, Bonded 

labourer. 



communication skills 

violence, drug peddling, child labour. 

Power point presentation and discussion was held for clarification of 

concepts. While discussing gender issue the participants identified 

very clearly about the position of male and female in our society and 

the rights of women and children. The participants identified routes 

of trafficking in West Bengal, reasons of trafficking etc. In an 

activity where a safety net was built to protect a nine-year old girl, 

the participants identified several stakeholders like parents, relatives, 

neighbour, doctor, teacher, police, and lawyer, NGOs etc. 

PTC resource person held a lecture based session on the role of 

Police in identifying vulnerable persons, victims and traffickers at 

source, transit and destination points and also the role of SOs during 

investigation. 

The SLARTC resource person held a lecture on the relevant Acts 

like ITPA, IPC and the appropriate section of those Acts. The 

participants mentioned that they were just about aware of CSE and 

ITPA as mere terms that they have heard earlier. 

Before this particular activity started the participants were asked 

about what is the most important part of their body for observation 

and identification of traffickers and victims, they said eyes. The 

participants then stood in a circle and changed their places keeping 

their eye contact intact. They realised that eye contact is very 

important not only for observation but also for intimidating an 

offender or comforting a victim. 

Day 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 


Assisting Police 

Officers in 

Investigation and 

intelligence gathering. 

Story telling and 

Mental health issue 




on exploitative labour, 


The second day began with the discussion on the importance of body 

language and an activity on body language followed. Then the 

participants recapitulated what they had done or discussed the 

previous day. 



aspects of investigation like, why wrapping evidence in cotton was 

incorrect. The participants appreciated the session, especially the 

wrapping, labelling and collection of evidence. According to the 

participants, though the IOs do investigation yet, their role is also 

important. 

Through an image making activity and sharing a trafficked victim’s 

story the facilitator built an environment to make the participants 

understand the situation of the victim and his/her mental health. 

Sanlaap discussed the mental health condition of the victims. 

In a case study on three minors, where one (Indian) had trafficked the 

other two from Bangladesh, the participants identified who would be 

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organ transplantation, 


Act, Juvenile Justice 

Rescue, Interviewing 

victims and 

counselling 

Rehabilitation 


presentation 

Prevention 


Feedback and 

Evaluation 

sent to JJB and who to CWC. Discussion helped in clarifying 

concepts on relevant laws. They were sensitised on proper procedure 

of repatriation instead of “push back”. 

PTC resource persons discussed the proper process of interviewing 

victims and counselling. The presence of lady police officials is also 

important. If the victim refuses to give the interview in that case he 

or she can be sent to an NGO (dealing with the issue) for 

counselling. 

Sanlaap discussed that the rescue of a victim is the start of a positive 

journey, they discussed elaborately that police has a very positive 

role to play because they are the ones who would probably rescue the 

girl and take necessary steps for their rehabilitation. They also 

discussed whom to contact and what to do for proper rehabilitation or 

mainstreaming the survivors. 

Two groups of participants gave presentation on the ‘Role of 

Community in stopping TIP’ and the ‘Role of Police in stopping 

TIP’. It was observed that they reiterated issues covered in different 

sessions like building awareness, ensuring rehabilitation, 

strengthening linkages between different stakeholders, appointing 

source to gather information, taking necessary steps for interviewing 

the victims, ensuring exemplary punishment of offenders etc. 



evidence ensuring prosecution to prevent trafficking. 

The participants mentioned that they would henceforth be in touch 

with NGOs working on AHT throughout the year, collect 

intelligence on vulnerable areas and persons and also create 

awareness among their colleagues and common people. They will 

also be more conscious about their behaviour with victims. 

It was found that the participants were not aware of the intensity of 

the problem. They said they didn’t know about ITPA and CSE. They 

were amazed to know that trafficking in human beings is listed third 

in the category of crimes worldwide. Many of them also didn’t know 

that customers are also exploiters and can be punished under the law. 

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Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





48 80 



54 80 



45 70 




67 87 



51 87 



77 96 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

77 96 


The participants appreciated the workshop and said that the workshop was very 

interactive and different resource persons from different organisation have broaden their 

understanding on the issues of Human trafficking and the ways of combating it. 



Participants said that they have learned a great deal about laws to combat human 

trafficking, which were not known to them earlier. The activities were very 

interesting to make one understand different aspects of trafficking and the mental 

trauma that a victim of trafficking goes through. 

According to some participants they now have detailed information about human 

trafficking, its process and ramifications. Not only as police personnel but as a 

responsible citizen it is their duty to take necessary steps to stop trafficking. 

According to some participants earlier they didn’t know that all the persons 

having knowledge of trafficking are guilty under the law. 

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Some of the participants said that they now know who are victims and who are 

exploiters. They are now aware about how a person can be trafficked and for what 

reasons. 

Some said that by attending the workshop they are now better equipped to fight 

trafficking and deal with the victims. They said that they didn’t know that while 

rescuing a girl or woman presence of a woman police official is mandatory. 


The participant said that they feel all sections of the society must unite to stop 

human trafficking and to give exemplary punishment to the offenders so that 

others involved into this heinous crime will not dare to traffic a person 


One of the participants said that ‘ to combat trafficking my role is of immense 

importance and I would do my best to protect the victims’ 

Many of them said that after going back to their respective areas they would 

inform the local people about trafficking, they would also discuss it with other 

police personnel who could not attend the workshop. 

The police must be very careful and sympathetic towards the victim and should 

try to create a comfort zone for the victims. 

Some of them emphasised on the fact that having good source to collect 

information about traffickers is very important. Keeping track on the suspected 

persons is also important. 

Participants opined that collecting evidence is very important in bringing the 

offenders to justice. 

Some opined that the police should consistently maintain close liaison with the 

NGOs to ensure proper rescue and rehabilitation of victims. 

Problems: 

Participants were of the opinion that mainstreaming the survivors of trafficking 

back into the society is a critical issue and it has to be done properly and they 

need special cell for the same which would exclusively look after the same. They 

do not have this presently. 

Participants said that even though they now know that they must have women 

police official during interrogation and interview of the victim or arrest of a 

women trafficker but in most of the police stations either in the border area or 

otherwise there are hardly any women police personnel which is a big constraint 

for them. 

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Evaluation of the workshop by the participants: 

Sl. 

Very 

Question 

No. 

Good 

Good OK Poor 

1 Contents covered were adequate to reach the 61 35 3 

objective. 

2 Content was presented at the appropriate level. 54 41 3 

3 Sessions were well organized and well paced. 64 32 3 


interesting. 

55 45 

Sl. 

No. 

Assessment of resource persons by the participants: 

Option 

Very 

Good 

Good OK Poor 

Contact Base 48 25 3 

SLARTC 41 25 6 3 

SANLAAP 48 16 3 6 

PTC 61 19 

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List of Participants 

Sl. No. Name Designation Posted at Phone 

1 Tapas Roy ASI OF Police Gobordanga (Under Habra PS) 9433314809 

2 Ashim Mishra ASI of Police Maslandapur (Under Habra PS) 9733720834 

3 Biswanath Kar ASI of Police Minakha PS 9432179024 

4 Samir Mukhopadhyay ASI OF Police Sandeshkhali PS 9732705520 

5 Santosh Kr. Das ASI OF Police Baranagar PS 9433341891 

6 Dibakar Das C/ 3866 Gopalnagar PS 9933040631 

7 Rabindranath Paul C/4269 Hingalgonj PS 9734269019 

8 Ratan Pramanick ASI Jagaddal PS 9831852425 

9 Nikhil Biswas C/3065 BKP PS 9231885328 

10 Ranjit Dey ASI Ghola PS 9836053062 

11 Ashok Kumar Saha ASI Bidhannagar (N) PS 9433509766 

12 Mousumi Dey LASI Barasat Women Cell 9830164629 

13 Agomoni Kundu LC 160 Airport PS 9836071974 

14 Balaram Tola C/ 3211 Deganga PS 9734358173 

15 Madhausudan Das C/ 3457 9933499198 

16 Gour Chandra Mandal ASI 486 Habra PS 25615017 

17 Dilip Kr. Das ASI 120 Basirhat PS 9831304931 

18 Samar Chatterjee C/ 969 Bagdah PS 9831648626 

19 Aloke Chakraborty C/ 3157 Khardah PS 9830513448 

20 Asoke Kumar Maity ASI (A+B) New Town PS 9433135959 

21 Sandhi Roy C/ 3180 Titagarh PS 9732720115 

22 Subodh Goswami C/ 3523 Naihati PS 9903115897 

23 Apurva Das C/ 2316 Amdanga PS 9474503578 

24 Pulak Talukdar ASI - 1011 Ashoknagar PS 9932368966 

25 Goutam Kr. Roy ASI - 2162 BDS East PS 9830802181 

26 Swapan Bhatterjee C/ 2952 Bangaon PS 3215256900 

27 Anindita Ghosh L/C 2554 Doltola Police line 9933623244 

28 Saniya Dutta L/C 2572 Doltola Police line 831630959 

29 Koyel Roy L/C 4112 Doltola Police line 9831501714 

30 Krishna Chalita L/C 4086 Doltola Police line 93319608344 

31 Gopal Ch. Mandal ASI 1552 Swarupnagar PS 

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District : Howrah Workshop Dates: 24 th -25 th August, 2007 

Venue : Shibpur Police Line, Howrah 


Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Ananya Bhattacharya, Swarnendu Sarkar, Suravi Sarkar, 

Avijit Ghosh, 


Sudipta Dey, Aloke Bera 

Rajendra Mitra, Anirban Chakraborty 


11 ASIs and 19 Constables from Howrah, Golabari, Bally, Mali Panch ghara, Shibpur, 

Liluah, Bantra, Jagacha, Sankrail, R.I Howrah Police Line police stations attended the 

workshop. The participants did not have prior experience in handling human trafficking 

cases. Rank and gender wise number of participants is detailed below. 


ASI 11 00 11 


Total 25 5 30 

Smt. Neeru Sherpa Chakrabarty, IPS, Addl. SP Howrah (HQ) inaugurated the workshop. 

Shri. Neeraj Kumar Singh, IPS, SP Howrah and Addl.SP (HQ) both were present at the 

end of the workshop to address the participants and also to give away the certificates. 

Shri. N Sam, RI and Shri. Sanjay Chatterjee, MTO were also present in the workshop. 

Workshop Details: 

Day-1 

Session Name 

Introductory session 


Description 

Objectives of the workshop were shared with the 

participants and they were introduced with the 

resource persons. 

Most of the participants were unaware of ITPA and 

other aspects of human trafficking. Some of them 

mistook prostitutions and human trafficking as same. 

The details of evaluation are listed below. 

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Getting to know each other (ice 

breaking activity) 

Assessing prioritization given to 


Clarifying of concepts 

Identification of traffickers, 

offenders, victim 

Investigation 

Laws and procedures on CSE, 

IPC, case study sharing 

An activity was conducted in which the facilitator 

played the role of a trafficker, while the participants 

were in their namesake’s role of police officials. The 

policemen were supposed to catch hold of the 

trafficker, but if the trafficker looked back then the 

participants were to tell their names, police station, 

and their likes and dislikes. This activity created an 

atmosphere of ease and comfort among the 

participants and also helped them to get introduced in 

an informal manner. 

In this session the participants identified the different 

types of crimes which takes place in their area like 

child & women trafficking, violence against women, 

child labor, murder, terrorism, etc. 

Clarification of concepts was carried out effectively 

with the help of power point presentation as well as 

group discussion. Different issues like Gender 

discrimination of which the women are at the 

receiving end and the problems, which arise out of 

male- female discrimination, were discussed. Child 

and Women’s Right and their vulnerable conditions 

which make them easy targets of human trafficking 

was also discussed. Participants were of the opinion 

that anyone can become a victim of trafficking, and a 

trafficker can be anyone from anywhere around us. 

That, a trafficker will be a person who is familiar 

with the people of that area/locality was discussed. 

Concepts like missing persons could also have been 

trafficked, the different routes/channels of trafficking, 

what for trafficking is being done, what are the 

reasons for getting trafficked were also clarified. 

A detailed discussion was held with the participants, 

where resource persons from PTC identified the 

situations and conditions, which makes the women/ 

adolescents/ young girls vulnerable and victims of 

trafficking. The source, transit and destination areas 

of trafficking, also the role, awareness level and 

behaviour of SOs during investigation were 

discussed. 

Power point presentation was used to explain the 

legal procedures. It was observed that the SOs did not 

have much knowledge about the ITPA and also did 

not feel that knowledge of law is necessary, as they 

do not have much scope to apply the same. The 

participants were not aware that the customer is also 

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punishable under ITPA. They were then sensitised on 

the importance of knowing relevant laws for 

strengthening prosecution and prevention of crime. 

Activity on implementation of 

various section of important laws 

The different sections of law like 3(1), 3(2) A, 3(2) B, 

4A under ITPA and 366(A), 372, 374 under IPC were 

discussed with the help of role play sessions where 

situations were created involving two or more 

participants, and then they were asked to tell which 

law would be applicable under such circumstances. 

Day-2 

Warm up & recap 

Law and procedures on 

exploitative labour, 

Organ 

transplantation, 

Foreigner’s Act, IT Act, JJ Act 

Activity on communication skill 

Evidence collection and transfer, 

Rescue and post rescue care of 

victims, Restoration, Repatriation 

Mental health issues and “best 

interest of survivor” 


The participants were sensitised on how body 

language plays an important role in communication. 

They then recapitulated the previous day’s sessions. 

Through a Power point presentation the resource 

person from SLARTC discussed all the laws and 

procedures. It was noticed that participants had 

knowledge of CWC and JJB. 

Ten participants were selected and five of them were 

made traffickers and five others were made police 

officers, without letting anyone know who is who. 

One object was given to a trafficker and he/she was 

to identify who is the other of his kind and pass on 

the object to the other, while the police officers were 

to identify their community and then catch the 

offenders. The whole activity was carried out to 

demonstrate the importance of non-verbal 

communication, which has crucial role in their day 

to day life. 

PTC resource person held a lecture-based session. 

The participants were not aware of proper 

procedures. They were sensitised on incorrect 

processes like wrapping evidence in cotton wool and 

why it is incorrect. The participants queried about 

steps to be taken in case of unavailability of lady 

police official at PS during rescue and post rescue 

operations. 

Story telling technique was used to sensitise the 

participants on the plight of survivors and his or her 

mental state. 

Resource person of Sanlaap conducted participatory 

discussion on the issue of proper rehabilitation 

process. In this session participants mention that 

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Role play 

Group Discussion 

Action plan 

Feed back 

police and society have a responsibility to aware a 

child victim about their rights. They also mentioned 

that they need some alternative economic support to 

improve their life style and the proper rehabilitation 

should possible if we provide them all type of 

medical, social, and economic support. 

In this session our facilitator and participants played 

two different types of role where they portrayed - 

what should be the role of a police in times of 

rescuing of victims, and how he should behave while 

interviewing the victims and gain trust from the 

victims under such mental condition. 

A general discussion was held with the participants 

in which four groups were created and topics like 

what should be role of police and what should be the 

role of society in preventing human trafficking and 

assisting the trafficked victims to rehabilitate in the 

society were dwelt upon. 

The participants mentioned that more efforts should 

be made to gather information about the vulnerable 

areas and persons and also attempt to spread mass 

awareness about traffickers and victims among their 

colleagues should be made. They assessed that it is 

important to keep in touch with the local Panchayat 

and people of their area. 

The observation of the participants is summarized 

below. 


% Of correct response 

Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





33 72 



40 82 



43 93 




10 71 



23 71 

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even if a trafficked woman is being made to indulge in 


parlour. 


prostitution. 

83 85 

20 78 

86 96 

Participants felt that the workshop gave them valuable insight on the menace of human 

trafficking and also empowered them with the skills and knowledge to combat the same. 



Participants said they now have a clear conception on various means adopted for 

human trafficking, what happens to the victims of trafficking, how to rescue the 

victims, what all steps they need to take after a rescue and above all that they have 

learnt great deal about what they need to do to prevent trafficking 

“I have learnt how to nab a trafficker to prevent him/her from committing the 

heinous crime and what action needs to be taken against him/her”. 

One of the participants commented that the knowledge regarding identification of 

trafficker or victim would be very useful. 

Some participants commented that they now have a clear perspective on the 

factors leading to vulnerability of a person to trafficking. 


“We need to ask for assistance from public and Panchayat members to prevent 

trafficking”. 

Some participant commented that people too need to have a clear idea on their 

role and responsibility in preventing this menace from plaguing our society. 


One of the participant said “As a police personnel, I will make the people of my 

area aware about the menace and strengthen my linkage with NGOs and when on 

duty I will be vigilant in case a trafficking case is happening so that I can avert the 

attempt”. 

“We need to step up our vigilance in areas like railway station, bus stands and 

Ferry Ghat”. 

“As police personnel if we have any information regarding a case of human 

trafficking we must immediately escalate the matter to our superior and then 

accompany him to the spot”. 

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Problems: 

Participants were of the opinion that people’s indifferent attitude is a big problem. 

One of the participant stated that lack of vision and communication becomes a 

hindrance in tackling the problem. 


Question Yes No 


objective. 

100 

2 Content was presented at the appropriate level. 100 



interesting. 

87 3 


Sl. 

No. 

Option Good OK Poor 

Contact Base 94 6 

SLARTC 69 31 


PTC 84 6 


Sl. 

No. 


1 Jaya Mandal Lady Constable Police line 26582746 

2 Tuhin Gupta ASI U.N. Pur PS 9830350520 

3 Rita Das L/C Police line 9231864155 

4 Panchali Nath L/C Police line 9831027210 

5 Sailen Chandra Mandal Constable Jaypur PS 

6 Divvzabr Biswas Constable Jaypur PS 

7 MD. Mukarram Hossain Constable Udaynarayanpur 9732908839 

8 Sris Kumar Jana Constable Bauria PS 3224271374 

9 Sri Nitai Sarkar Constable Bagonag PS 9831942695 

10 Muktaram Dali Constable Bosuna PS 9732964340 

11 Virmal Kumar ASI Bosuna PS 9433541480 

12 Asish Kr. Paul ASI Bosuna PS 9433380139 

13 Sambhunath ASI Panchlia PS 9433442392 

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Bhattacharya 

14 Subal Ch. Mandal Constable Bouria PS 9330950756 

15 D Chatterjee Constable U.N. Pur PS 3215259410 

16 Sanjay Biswas SI of Police Jaypur PS 9830776047 

17 Jhuma Naskar ASI of Police Police line 9830556338 

18 S Goswami L/C Police line 9433842859 

19 Prabin Ramesh L/C Panchlia PS 65148570 

20 Ramsundar Singha Constable Panchlia PS 9233123376 

21 Gora Ch. Dey ASI Domjur PS 9434753700 

22 Phanindra Nath Bala ASI S.B. Pur 

23 Krishnakanta Sarkar Constable Amta 

24 G K Anwar Hossain Constable Domjur PS 

25 Pradip Majumder Constable J.P. Pur PS 9331085536 

26 Nripen Dey ASI 

27 Saikh Anwar Hossain Constable Domjur PS 

28 Kartick Ch. Dey Constable Uluberia PS 9831180553 

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District : Howrah 

Venue : Shibpur Police line, Howrah 

Workshop Dates: 27-28 th August,2007 


Contact Base Swarnendu Sarkar, Suravi Sarkar, Avijit Ghosh 

Sanlaap Rituparna Chatterjee 

SLARTC Prosenjeet Chakraborty, Aloke Bera 

PTC 



9 ASIs and 23 Constables from Amta, Uluberia, Domjur, Panchla, Bauria, 

Udaynarayanpur, Bagnan, J.B. Pur, Joypur, R.I. Howrah police line, police stations 

attended the workshop. The participants did not have prior experience in handling human 

trafficking cases. Rank and gender wise number of participants is detailed below. 


ASI 09 00 09 


Total 27 05 32 


Day -1 


Purpose 



Getting to know each 

other (ice breaking 

activity) 


After a discussion with the participants on workshop goals and 

objectives, the participants were asked to stand in a line behind the 

theatre specialist maintaining a distance in between. The workshop 

specialist acted as a trafficker and the participants being policeman 

had to catch him. As the policemen tried to move in, at certain times 

the trafficker turned to watch if anyone is moving. If the trafficker 

finds someone moving he has to introduce himself with his name, 

address and the police station in which he is working. 

During the pre training evaluation it was realised by the resource 

persons that though most of the participants knew that persons are 

trafficked for CSE but they were not very aware of other aspects 

like various other reasons of trafficking, ITPA, differentiation 

between victim and accused and that even the customers are also 

exploiters. 

The participants were asked to sit in a circle keeping their eyes 

closed. During concentration an ambience of a beautiful morning 

was given. The participants were asked to open their eyes in this 

beautiful morning, move towards his closest friend and greet him . 

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Assessing prioritisation 


trafficking 




Investigation 


on CSE (ITPA, IPC) 




Investigation 

The participants identified the top crimes affecting our society. 

They mentioned dowry, human trafficking and rape, begging racket, 

drug peddling, Terrorism as the top crimes of concern. 

Participatory discussions facilitated clarification of concepts. The 

participants mentioned CSE, Child Labour, Bonded Labour, Camel 

Jockey, Organ Transplant as the various aspects of Human 

Traffcking. They also identified routes of trafficking in West 

Bengal, reasons of trafficking and effects of trafficking. They 

mentioned that a victim can also become a trafficker. They assessed 

economic disability and illiteracy as the main reasons behind 

trafficking. Children are forced to carry drugs from one place to 

another. Innocence of women and children are often exploited to 

lure and afterwards traffick them. Allurance of marriage and job are 

the main means of trafficking. Participants identified Howrah 

Railway Station as the major transit point where they need to 

increase their vigilance to stop the crime. In an activity where a 

safety net was built to protect a nine-year girl, the participants 

identified several stakeholders likeparents, teacher, neighbour, 

friend, Panchayat, police, NGO, Lawyers, local clubs etc. 

PTC resource persons held a detailed session with the participants 

on their role in identifying vulnerable persons, victims and 

traffickers in source, transit and destination areas and also the role 

of SOs during investigation. The participants could assess that 

persons from family can also be a trafficker. Anybody involved 

with trafficking is punishable under law. The participants during the 

investigation session said that often collection of traces required for 

investigation is not done properly. Lady constables are not aware of 

their responsibilities during investigation. The participants were not 

aware of rehabilitation of victims. Leveling is done at Police station 

and not at site. 

The participants did not know about ITPA. They felt that the 

customers who buy sex should also be brought to justice by 

law.Then they were made aware of the provision for the same under 

ITPA. 

The participants stood in a circle and were asked to look into the 

eyes of the person standing opposite to him or her. The participants 

was then asked to close his eyes and tell about some character about 

his partner. 

The participants shared that many a times evidence is not collected 

in the proper manner. Labeling is done at a later stage once the 

evidence has been brought to the PS. They were sensitised on 

incorrect processes like wrapping evidence in cotton wool and why 

it is incorrect. 

They also mentioned that many a times lady constables are not clear 

about their roles and responsibilities. 

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Listening Activity 

An activity was done to make participants realize importance of 

listening skills. ‘Passing the word’ activity was done. The 

participants sat in a circle. A word was told in one the participants 

ear and the same word he has to narrate to the one sitting beside him 

and the same continues till the last one tells the word in front of all. 

The participants could not tell the right word as they realized that 

many did not pronounce the word correctly or some did not hear it 

properly. 

Day - 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 






Act, JJ Act 

Mental health issues 



Rescue and post 

rescue care of victims, 

Restoration, 

Repatriation 

Role Play 

Rehabilitation issues 


presentation 


The participants were sensitised on how body language plays an 

important role in communication. They then recapitulated the 

previous day’s sessions. 

In a case study of three minors, where one had trafficked the other 

two, the participants identified who should be sent to JJB and who to 

CWC. They were sensitised on proper procedure of repatriation 

instead of “push back” system followed. Victim should not be 

treated as accused. If the victim is from Bangladesh, then the 

relevant act to be applied is not 14 Foreigner’s Act. 

Story telling technique was used to sensitise the participants on the 

plight of survivors. Discussion was then held on the mental state of 

the survivor, the emotions that a survivor goes through like feeling 

of helplessness, fear, weakness, sadness, anger, withdrawn, Lying, 

Ill etc. 


were not aware of proper procedures. The participants wanted to 

know what should be their action in case of unavailability of lady 

police official at the PS during rescue and post rescue operations. 

The participants were not aware as to where should they keep the 

survivor post a rescue operation. 

Participants also wanted to know about their correct action in case of 

writing GD in absence of an IO. 

One group enacted on a theme ‘Police interviewing a victim’. The 

participants did the role play, where they showed how they would 

interact with other politely and softly. 

Sanlaap used power point presentation and held discussion to share 

seven core quality standards of rehabilitation. 

The participants were divided in to three groups. The groups were 

given the following topics for presentation, ‘Role of Community in 

stopping TIP’, ‘Rescued girl from brothel must be a prostitute’ and 

‘Role of Police in stopping TIP’. It was observed that they reiterated 

issues covered in different sessions like building awareness, ensuring 

rehabilitation, strengthening linkages between different stakeholders, 

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Prevention 

Feedback and 

Evaluation 

ensuring exemplary punishment of offenders etc. During group 

discussion the SO’s asked whether in the absence of IO, SO’s can 

take charge of the case. 

The participants mentioned that attempts should be made to collect 

intelligence on vulnerable areas and persons and also create 

awareness among their colleagues. They mentioned that it is 

important to keep in touch with the local Panchayat and people. 



evidence etc. 

The observation of the participants is summarized below. 

Pre and Post training evaluation: 


Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





46 96 



50 96 



62 84 




46 90 



40 90 



75 96 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

78 96 

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They said that they learnt various important aspects of TIP which are important 

for prevention of the menace like, source, transit and destination. Also, they felt 

they learnt about important things that they need to collect for witness and court. 

Participants particularly emphasized on their learning’s of the various laws 

applicable in case of combating TIP which they were earlier unaware of. 

They also commented that through the workshop they have got to know about 

various efforts being made by different NGOs for the cause. 

They said that they have learnt a great deal regarding rehabilitation and 

mainstreaming of survivors of trafficking 

What needs to be done : 

Participants felt that all sections of the society need to be made aware human 

trafficking, only then will it be possible to combat TIP in an effective manner. 


Participants mentioned that if they get to know of a probable case of TIP they 

would immediately inform their superior as well as the people of the locality an 

ensure that the Trafficker is thrown out of the society. 

They mentioned that their primary job would be to follow the correct steps and 

procedures to nab the trafficker and to ensure that the trafficker is arrested. 

Participants commented that they work towards strengthening their linkages with 

the NGOs, voluntary organizations, local clubs and important people of the 

localities. 

They felt they need to improve their help seeking attitudes, particularly in case of 

NGOs. 

Problems: 

Lack of awareness amongst people is a big hindrance. 



1 Contents covered were adequate to reach the 100 

objective. 




interesting. 

87 3 

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Sl. 

No. 



SLARTC 69 31 


PTC 84 6 


Sl. 

No. 


1 Jaya Mandal Lady Constable Police line 26582746 

2 Tuhin Gupta ASI U.N. Pur PS 9830350520 

3 Rita Das L/C Police line 9231864155 

4 Panchali Nath L/C Police line 9831027210 

5 Sailen Chandra Mandal Constable Jaypur PS 

6 Divvzabr Biswas Constable Jaypur PS 

7 MD. Mukarram Hossain Constable Udaynarayanpur 9732908839 

8 Sris Kumar Jana Constable Bauria PS 3224271374 

9 Sri Nitai Sarkar Constable Bagonag PS 9831942695 

10 Muktaram Dali Constable Bosuna PS 9732964340 

11 Virmal Kumar ASI Bosuna PS 9433541480 

12 Asish Kr. Paul ASI Bosuna PS 9433380139 

13 

Sambhunath 

Bhattacharya ASI Panchlia PS 9433442392 

14 Subal Ch. Mandal Constable Bouria PS 9330950756 

15 D Chatterjee Constable U.N. Pur PS 3215259410 

16 Sanjay Biswas SI of Police Jaypur PS 9830776047 

17 Jhuma Naskar ASI of Police Police line 9830556338 

18 S Goswami L/C Police line 9433842859 

19 Prabin Ramesh L/C Panchlia PS 65148570 

20 Ramsundar Singha Constable Panchlia PS 9233123376 

21 Gora Ch. Dey ASI Domjur PS 9434753700 

22 Phanindra Nath Bala ASI S.B. Pur 

23 Krishnakanta Sarkar Constable Amta 

24 G K Anwar Hossain Constable Domjur PS 

25 Pradip Majumder Constable J.P. Pur PS 9331085536 

26 Nripen Dey ASI 

27 Saikh Anwar Hossain Constable Domjur PS 

28 Kartick Ch. Dey Constable Uluberia PS 9831180553 

29 Krishnakant Saish Constable Aula PS 9433313603 

30 Ratan Ghosh Constable Uluberia PS 9433527906 

31 Tapan Mandal ASI Amta PS 9433808150 

32 Trijoginath Misra Constable JB Pur 9883154848 

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District: South 24 Parganas Workshop Dates: 31 st Aug -1 st Sept, 2007 

Venue : Conference Hall, S 24 Pgns Police HQ, Alipore 


Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Sushanta Mukherjee, Nirmalya Roy, Subroto Dey, Suravi Sarkar 

Rituparna Chatterjee 

Prasenjit Chakrabarty 



14 ASIs and 15 Constables from Nodhakhalni, Behala, DEB, Rabindra Nagar, Nadial, 

Tallygunj, DIB, Sonarpur, Tiljala, Jadavpur, Thakurpukur, Budgebudge, Bishnupur, 

Kasba police stations attended the workshop. The participants were found to be familiar 

with the menace of trafficking but they lacked in depth knowledge and also ITPA was a 

new subject for many of the participants. Rank and gender wise number of participants is 

detailed below. 


ASI 14 00 14 


Total 29 00 29 


Day 1 


Purpose 



Assessing 




Objectives of the workshop were shared with the participants and the 

resource persons were then introduced. 

Participants in most cases did not have any detailed knowledge of 

ITPA but were familiar with Human Trafficking as they could 

differentiate between prostitution and Human Trafficking. 

The participants prioritised the top crimes in their area as child & 

women trafficking, violence against women, child labour, murder, 

terrorism, eve teasing, rape , kidnapping of minors etc. 

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Investigation 



labourer. 




Power point presentation as well as group discussion was conducted 

for clarifying concepts. Issues like Gender discrimination of which 

the women are at the receiving end and the problems that arise out of 

male- female discrimination were discussed. Child and women’s 

right and their vulnerable conditions which make them easy targets 

of trafficking, was also discussed. Concepts like missing persons 

could also be trafficked, the different routes/channels of trafficking, 

what for trafficking is being done, what are the reasons behind 

getting trafficked were also clarified. Participants mentioned that S 

24 Pgns is a very vulnerable district because it is a source, transit as 

well as destination point. They also mentioned Kakdwip, Bishnupur, 

Baruipur as vulnerable areas in the district and traffickers target the 

BPL people. They iterated that police couldn’t prevent this organised 

crime alone. After the group discussion “safety net” activity was 

done with the participants to help them understand and identify 

stakeholders who can be partners in preventing trafficking in our 

society. 

PTC resource person held a detailed discussion with the participants, 

where the trainer identified the situations and conditions that make 

the women/ adolescents/ young girls vulnerable and victims of 

trafficking. The source, transit and destination areas of trafficking, 

also the role, awareness level and behaviour of SOs during 

investigation were discussed. Participants agreed that they do not get 

to identify the traffickers easily as in most of the cases they are 

people who are known to the victim. 

SLARTC facilitator briefed the participants on the legal procedures. 

It was observed that the SOs did not have much knowledge about 

ITPA and also did not feel the knowledge is necessary, as they do 

not have much scope to apply the same. The participant mentioned 

that supply chain can only be stopped when the laws can apply for 

the customer to check the demand side. Some of them stated 

prostitution as a crime. The facilitator then explained the legal 

definition of brothel and prostitution. 








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Day 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 



Officers in 


intelligence gathering 











victims and 

counselling 



The day started with a short exercise followed by a recap of the 

earlier day’s sessions. 

PTC resource persons held a session on the role of SOs during 

investigation. The supporting officials mainly collect the evidences, 

but they mentioned that they have no training for the same so, many 

times they face problems and ultimately the biological evidences get 

destroyed. They were sensitised on aspects like, why wrapping 

evidence in cotton was incorrect. The participants commented 

positively on the enriching session, especially the wrapping, labelling 

and collection of evidence. They said that though the IOs do this 

work still their role is also important. They also admitted that owing 

to their lack of knowledge many a times the legal procedures get 

misguided. 


story, facilitator from Sanlaap built an environment to make the 

participants understand the situations of a victim and his/her mental 

state. Then facilitator elaborated the condition mental health of a 

victim of trafficking. Participants admitted that sometimes they 

misbehave with the victim due to lack of awareness of the mental 

condition of the victim. 

In a case study of three minors, where one (Indian) had trafficked the 



concepts on relevant laws like JJ Act and Foreigner’s Act. 

Participants mentioned that in many previous cases they used 14 - 

Foreigner’s Act on minors which was wrong, but now they got the 

knowledge for proper implementations of laws. They also said that 

there are no JJB in their district so sometimes they face many 

procedural problems. 

PTC resource persons held discussions with the participants on the 

aspects of interviewing and counselling of the victims. The fact that 

only a lady police can do the interviewing was a totally new learning 

for the participants as many a times the men also interact with the 

victims. The participants were not aware of proper procedures. 

Resource person from Sanlaap held a discussion on the issue of 

proper rehabilitation process. In this session participants mentioned 

that police and society have a responsibility for making a child 

victim aware of his/her rights. They also mentioned that they need 

some alternative economic support to improve life style of the 

survivor and that proper rehabilitation could only be possible if they 

can be provided with all type of medical, social, and economic 

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presentation 

Prevention 


Feedback and 

Evaluation 

support. 

Participants were divided in four groups and given one topic each for 

discussion. Each of the four groups then gave presentation on the 

following topics, ‘Role of Community in stopping TIP’ and the ‘Role 

of Police in stopping TIP’, ‘Assisting survivors of trafficking on 

rehabilitation in society’. It was observed that in their presentation 

they reiterated issues covered in different sessions. 



evidence, ensuring prosecution to prevent trafficking. 

The participants mentioned that more efforts need to be made to 

gather information about the vulnerable areas and persons and also 

they need to make an effort towards spreading awareness regarding 

traffickers and victims among their colleagues. They stated that it is 

important to maintain contact with the local Panchayat and people. 

They were of the opinion that they would require the help of the 

NGOs also. 

The observations of the participants are summarized below. 

Pre and Post Training Evaluation 


Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





75 93 



75 93 



79 96 




55 93 



62 90 



82 96 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

82 96 

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The particpants felt that the workshop will help them in future in preventing trafficking as 

they are now conscious of their role as supporting officials. They were earlier not fully 

aware of ramifications of trafficking. They mentioned that there are many source point in 

their district so they have to be very careful in their job and they should mentain a good 

communication chain in the vulnerable areas otherwise they would not be able to prevent 

the organised crime. 



“I was familiar with the problem of Human Trafficking before attending the 

workshop but the workshop gave me deeper insight on the issue and also laws 

under ITPA were hitherto unknown to me”. 

“Victim should never be treated as an accused and during rescue victim and the 

accused should always be brought in separate vehicles. This would have a 

positive impact on the case”. 

“My knowledge on the subject has become complete knowledge now. From the 

workshop I also learnt about a lot of important duties to be performed pertaining 

to the issue and for assistance who all people can I expect help from to combat 

trafficking. I also learnt about the laws present to empower us for the same”. 


People need to be made aware of the menace 

Some participants stated that couple of exemplarary conviction would go a long 

way to dissuade traffickers from committing the heinous crime. 

Participants were of the opinion that if NGOs and Administration can forge a 

meaningful partnership in combating trafficking a lot can be achieved to stop the 

menace. 


Participants stated that they would improve upon their behaviour with public and 

also strengthen their liaison with NGOs and CWC. 

Some participants commented that since their duty is time bound and that the time 

may not be sufficient for effective vigilance they would mobilise local clubs and 

welfare organisations for joining hands in maintaining vigilance in their own area. 

“We have to have a friendly behaviour with the victim in such a manner that 

he/she feels we are their friend and can be of help to them. It is possible that many 

a time the victim may behave badly with us but we should not loose our cool in 

such a situation”. 

“In case of combating trafficking, as the ASI of the PS, I would promptly apprise 

my senior of the case and lodge an FIR and start the case as soon as possible and 

raid the source area with the help of NGO and send the survivor under the care of 

NGO”. 

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Problems: 

Participants commented that despite the willingness on their part to perform their 

duty properly they at times face time constraints. 




objective. 

75 25 




interesting. 

79 21 


Sl. 

No. 



SLARTC 63 34 3 

SANLAAP 65 31 

PTC 65 27 3 



1 Sadhan Guha ASI Nodhakhalni 6414060 

2 S.K. Mijanu Rahamam ASI Behala PS 24787350 

3 Swapan Kr. Naskar C/ 285 Nodha Khali 24700133 

4 Arjun Ch. Ghosh ASI D-E-B- south 24 Parganas 24480366 

5 Karna Kr. Goswami W/C - 767 D-E-B- south 24 Parganas 24480366 

6 Chandan Das C/ 395 PS Behala 9831399607 

7 Ratan Kumar Dey ASI Rabindra Nagar 24913394 

8 Sadhan das C/ 3086 Rabindra Nagar 24913394 

9 Anup Pal ASI Nadial PS 9434975907 

10 Swapan Karmakar C/ 1819 Nadial PS 9831937380 

11 Sontosh Sil C/ 2126 Tallygunj 9231406306 

12 Manoranjan Sikdar ASI Rijent Park 9434950925 

13 Subrata Sarkar ASI DIB HQ 9830468284 

14 Mukunda Bodak W/C DIB HQ 9331221727 

15 Anonda Sarkar ASI Sonarpur 24349296 

16 Anup Kr. Dey C/ 2443 Sonarpur 24349296 

17 Arun Kumar Naskar ASI Tiljala PS 23434693 

18 Sadhan Nmondal C/ 450 Tiljala PS 9830961674 

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19 Chitta Sarkar C/ 3308 Tiljala PS 

20 Shyamal Das ASI Tiljala PS 9830546073 

21 Jagannath Pramanick C/ 6795 Jadabpur PS 24730146 

22 Tapas Bhattacharya ASI Jadabpur PS 9831851341 

23 Ashis Roy C/ 2978 Thakurpukur 9339414339 

24 Sanat Kayal C/ 213 Thakurpukur 24821215 

25 Mrinal Sarkar ASI Budgebudge 24709245 

26 Ashim Halder C/ 404 Bishnupur 9830336632 

27 Nabin Mandal ASI Bishnupur 9331999129 

28 Kush Kr. Sankar C/ 478 Kasba PS 

29 Uttam Kr. Ghosh ASI Budge Budge 9883305230 

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District: South 24 Parganas Workshop Dates: 3 rd – 4 th Sept.2007 

Venue : Conference Hall, S 24 Pgns Police HQ, Alipore 


Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Sushanta Mukherjee, Nirmalya Roy, Suravi Sarkar 

Rituparna Chatterjee 




20 ASI and 20 constables from Basanti, Rabindranagar, DIB, Jadavpur, Kulpi, Raidighi, 

Nadial, K.L.C. Usthi, Buangar, Falta, Mandir Bazar, Kakdwip, Regent Park, Sagar, 

Patharpratima, Thakurpukur, Gosaba, Kultali, Namkhana police stations attended the 

workshop. The participants were somewhat familiar with trafficking as an issue but the 

knowledge of ITPA was broadly lacking. Rank and gender wise number of participants is 

detailed below. 


ASI 20 - 20 

Constable 20 - 20 

Total 40 - 40 

Shri D.P.Singh, IPS, Addl.SP was present in the workshop to give away the certificates to 

the participants.. 


Day- 1 


Purpose 



Assessing 

prioritization given to 



Objectives of the workshop were shared with the participants and the 

resource persons were then introduced. After that, to introduce the 

participants a simple activity was held on alertness where the 

participants stepped in or out of the circle as instructed by the 

facilitator. The participants who did not respond correctly introduced 

themselves. 

Most of the participants did not have any knowledge of ITPA. Some 

of them had the misconception of prostitution and human trafficking 

being the same. 

The participants prioritized the top crimes in their area like child & 

women trafficking, violence against women, child labour, murder, 

terrorism, eve teasing, rape , kidnapping of minors, marital dispute 

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Investigation 



labourer 




etc. Most of them said domestic violence is a big problem in our 

society. 

Power point presentation and participatory discussions facilitated 

clarification of concepts on human trafficking. The participants 

mentioned that the traffickers identified the weakness of the people 

and fulfill their targets very easily. Lack of awareness of the general 

people is the main cause of human trafficking. They also mentioned 

that their district is highly vulnerable. Fake marriages and migration 

of people for job or better livelihood are very common matter in 

their district. So police also face the problem to identify the real 

trafficking cases. They repeatedly said that police needs the help of 

general people to prevent the organized crime. In an activity where 

a safety net was built to protect a nine-year old girl child, the 

participants identified several stakeholders like - parents, teachers, 

neighbors, friends, Panchayats, Police, NGOs, Lawyers, local clubs 

etc. 

PTC facilitator shared a story with the participants for their better 

understanding of who could be a trafficker. Through the story 

participants discussed about all the offenders related with the crime 

at various stages like financer, transporter, abuser etc. In an open 

discussion participants identified situations and conditions, which 

makes the women/adolescents/ young girls vulnerable and victims of 

trafficking. The discussion harped on the fact that in most cases of 

trafficking the traffickers are not outsiders. The participant 

mentioned that many areas like Kakdwip, Patharpratima, Hingalganj 

are prone to disasters like flood which may become a vulnerability 

factor for trafficking. They also shared instances when many 

schoolboys run away from home and they never come back again. 

Through a lecture session facilitator from SLARTC explained the 

legal procedures. It was observed that the SOs did not have much 

knowledge about CSE and brothel. Some of them had a perception 

that a rescued major girl from the brothel is always an accused. After 

the discussion of relevant sections of ITPA the perception changed. 

The participants mentioned that the supply chain can be stopped 

when laws can be applied on the customers. Some participants had 

the misconception that prostitution itself is a crime which was then 

corrected by the facilitator. They said that they got a clear perception 

of law as their main tool which will help them in carrying out their 

duty effectively. 





their eye contact intact. They realized that eye contact is very 


offender or comforting a victim 

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Day 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 



Officers in 













victims and counseling 

Prevention 



The day started with a recapitulation of last day’s sessions. 

PTC resource persons held a lecture-based session where they 

discussed the correct procedure of collecting evidences and the 

preservation process. The biological evidences like blood, hair, 

semen are very important in proving the identity of the accused, 

mainly the supporting officials have to notice the PO very carefully. 

They also discussed the labeling and packaging process of the 

evidences. The facilitator also discussed about the intelligence 

gathering technique and mentioned about maintaining a good relation 

with the local clubs, schools as a well as other sources for gathering 

intelligence. Participants mentioned that they can also get 

information from the customer of a brothel. 

Resource person from Sanlaap started the session with an activity 

where each participant was asked to feel that his very close one has 

exploited his trust and thrown him in a drudgery of an unknown and 

painful life. This activity was done to establish the totally destroyed 

mental status of the victim. Participants then shared their view where 

they mentioned that victim lives with fear, mistrust, identity crisis, 

lack of confidence, suicidal tendencies which are all reflections of 

the violence that the victim has been subjected to. 

Through a lecture session, SLARTC resource person discussed the 

Minor laws. Participants had some knowledge on JJ Act and F.Act. 

Participants wanted to know about the role and responsibility of 

police in case of the many children who are in need of care and 

protection in our society. They also mentioned that Child Laborers 

Act and Bonded Laborers Abolitions act should be implemented 

properly. 

PTC resource persons held a lecture-based session. In rescue time 

what is the role of SOs was discussed. The participants mentioned 

that they were not aware of proper procedures. They were sensitized 

on incorrect processes like wrapping evidence in cotton wool and 

why it is incorrect. The participants queried about unavailability of 

lady police at PS during rescue and post rescue operations. They also 

queried about the NGOs of their local areas. 




The participants mentioned that more efforts need be made to gather 

information about the vulnerable areas and persons and also attempt 

needs to be made to raise the awareness of their colleagues on 

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Feedback and 

Evaluation 

traffickers and victims. They mentioned that it is important to keep in 

touch with the local Panchayat, Clubs, Schools, NGOs and people of 

their area. 




Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





54 86 



62 75 



62 91 




56 89 



45 62 



86 97 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

86 94 

The participants appreciated the workshop and commented that the training program has 

been successful in putting forth various aspects of human trafficking. 



Participants were of the opinion that they now have clearer concept on how to 

prevent trafficking 

Some of the participants commented that they learnt how a survivor of trafficking 

can be rehabilitated and mainstreamed in the society. 

Participants commented that they got knowledge on aspects of trafficking like 

primary knowledge on offender, detection, arrest and conviction and 

rehabilitation of victim. 

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According to some participants, economic condition of people needs to be 

improved which will result in reducing vulnerability. 

Participants felt that peoples awareness needs to be raised on the issue through 

various mediums like theatre, cinema etc. 

“I felt that if we behave well with survivors of trafficking and are successful in 

giving them the courage and assurance that they can get back to their normal life 

then definitely rehabilitation is possible. And in this context I feel the workshop is 

successful”. 


“I am from Namkhana P.S. which is in Haripur Gram Panchayat. I would call a 

meeting of Panchayat Pradhan and members and appraise them of the situation, 

develop a system where anybody going out of the GP area for job or any other 

purpose needs to inform Panchayat along with their contact number”. 

Problems: 

One of the participant was of the opinion that they have constraints in their job 

which may prove to be a hindrance for them to work towards preventing 

trafficking 




objective. 

94 6 




interesting. 

91 9 


Sl. 

No. 


Contact Base 97 

SLARTC 90 10 

SANLAAP 90 10 

PTC 97 

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Sl. No. Name Posted at Phone Designation 

1 Md. Marajali Sardar ASI Rabindra Nagar 9433795161 

2 Subash Chandra Das Constable Rabindra Nagar 9830680572 

3 Prabir Mukherjee ASI Basanti 9836195916 

4 Sudipta Chowdhury Constable Basanti 3218232238 

5 Santosh Kumar Das Constable DIB, Jadavpur 9433167354 

6 Harugopal Ghosh Constable Jadavpur 9831539829 

7 Sunil Kumar Naskar Constable Kulpi 9830249723 

8 Swapan Kumar Dey Constable Raidighi 9432166601 

9 Amarendra Kumar Saha ASI Raidighi 9433611384 

10 Asish Kumar Mondal ASI Kulpi 9733553991 

11 Pradip Kumar Halder ASI Nadial 9433557608 

12 Shyamal Mukherjee Constable Nadial 9830139663 

13 Bhismadev Roychowdhury Constable KLC 9903112352 

14 Kajal Dulli Constable KLC 9830315916 

15 Gobinda Kundu ASI Usthi 9732670942 

16 Sk. Rejoan Ali Constable Usthi 9933521815 

17 Dilip Kumar Das Constable Bhangar 270490 

18 Debabrata Chatterjee ASI Jadavpur 9433375957 

19 Dhiraj Kazal Constable Purba 9903770439 

20 Sudipto Chatterjee ASI Purba 9434301372 

21 Nandal Mondal ASI Jadavpur 9433378972 

22 Tarunava Mukherjee ASI Falta 9433257834 

23 Ananta Chakraborty Constable Mandirbazar 9733735991 

24 Pradip Ghosh ASI 9433972120 

25 Gopal Chandra Das Constable Kakdwip 9831526340 

26 Chanarabaulab Sharma ASI Regent Park 9831231246 

27 Tapan Kumar Roychwodhry ASI Mandirbazar 9732402206 

28 Nemai Chandra Biswas Constable Sagar 

29 Shyamal Ghosh ASI Patharpratima 9433951163 

30 Nitai Saha Constable Patharpratima 

31 Santa Bera ASI Thakurpukur 9830638696 

32 Kush Paul Constable Thakurpukur 9733550573 

33 Sumit Kumar De ASI Ramnagar 9830222541 

34 Ashutosh Sarkar ASI Ramnagar 

35 Sanjay Chakraborty ASI Kakdwip 9732575776 

36 Tarun Chatterjee Constable Namkhana 9932399328 

37 Ananta Mukherjee Constable Regent Park 9732781623 

38 Nazrul Islam Mondal ASI Gosaba 9733686898 

39 Surendra Mohan Chakraborty Constable Kultoli 9836908760 

40 Somnath Bhattacharjee ASI Kultoli 9831935626 

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District: Burdwan Workshop Dates: 5 th -6 th Sept, 2007 

Venue : Police line Conference Hall, Burdwan 


Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Raja Chakraborty, Nirmalya Roy, Surabhi Sarkar 





17 ASIs and 12 Constables from Burdwan, Raina, Kalna, Sadar, Jamalpur, Aushgram, 

Memari, Ketugram, Women cell, Purbasthali, Katowa DCRD, Reserve office, DEB, 

Galsi, Kalshur, Mangalkot were present. The participants had good knowledge about 

trafficking , but they did not know about the different sections of ITPA. Rank and gender 

wise number of participants is detailed below 

DSP (HQ) of Burdwan Shri P.L.Bhattercharya (who is the nodal officer for this training) 

and RO Shri Subir Sen were present in the workshop to address the participants. Shri 

Piyush Pandey IPS, SP of Burdwan gave away certificates to the participants. 


Day 1 


ASI 15 02 17 


Total 22 7 29 


Purpose 



Assessing 




The participants were introduced to the resource persons and the 

objectives of the workshop were shared with them. 

The details are listed below. 

In this session the participants prioritized the different types of 

crimes which takes place in their area like murder, child & women 

trafficking, violence against women, child labor, terrorism, etc 

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Thought Provoker 



Investigation 


on CSE, Bonded labor. 




Clarification of concepts was carried out effectively with the help of 

power point presentation as well as group discussion. Participants 

identify poverty is the sole reason for human trafficking. Different 

issues like Gender discrimination of which the women are at the 

receiving end and the problems, which arise out of male- female 

discrimination, were discussed. Child and Women’s Right and their 

vulnerable conditions which makes them easy targets of getting 

trafficked was also discussed. That any one can become a victim of 

trafficker and get trafficked, and a trafficker can be from anywhere 

or anyone around us, he/she can be a known or an unknown person 

whom we see in life daily; but that a trafficker will be a person who 

is familiar with the people of that area/locality was talked about. 

Concepts like missing persons can also be trafficked, the different 

routes/channels of trafficking, what for trafficking is being done, 

what are the reasons for getting trafficked were also clarified. 

Participants said that a new dimension of Human trafficking, which 

was unknown to them, is clarified. 

An activity on bulding a ‘Safety Net’ was taken up to help the 

participants identify stakeholders in combating trafficking. This 

helped the participants to understand that there is no particular 

person who is vulnerable so every member of the society should 

come together and make a safety net to stop trafficking. 

During the session on clarifying concept it was observed that most of 

the participants had confusions regarding identifying and 

distinguishing between a victim and an accused. Detailed discussion 

was held with the participants, where PTC trainers identified the 

situations and conditions, which make the women/adolescents/ 

young girls vulnerable, and victims to the traffickers. The source, 

transit and destination areas of trafficking, also the role, awareness 

level and behaviour of SOs during investigation were discussed. 

Power point presentation was used to explain the concepts of legal 

procedures. It was observed that the SOs did not have much 

knowledge about the ITPA and also did not feel that knowledge of 

law is necessary, as they do not have much scope of applying the 

same. The participants were not aware that the customer is also 

punishable under ITPA. They were then sensitised on the importance 

of knowing relevant laws for strengthening prosecution and 

prevention of crime. 








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Day 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 



Officers in 
















The participants were asked about what is the most important part of 

their body for observation and identification of traffickers and 

victims, they said eyes. A theatre based activity was then taken up to 

enhance eye contact. The participants stood in a circle and exchanged 

their places keeping their eye contact intact. They realised that eye 

contact is a very important aspect of communication. 

Resource person from PTC held a lecture-based session. The 

participants were not aware of proper procedures involved in 

investigation. They were sensitised on aspects like why wrapping 

evidence in cotton was incorrect. Partcipants appreciated the session 

very much. 


story the facilitator built an environment to make the participants 

understand the situation of the victim and his/her mental health. 

Trainer from Sanlaap then discussed the mental health conditions of 

a victim of trafficking. 






PTC resource person held a participatory discussion on the 

precedures involved at the time of rescue and poast rescue. 

Participants shared that many a times after rescue they do not get 

correct information on victims address etc, as the victims do not 

come forth with them. They further suggested that in such cases they 

may take the help of NGOs and get the victim cuonselled properly to 

help the victim. They felt this woul;d help them in turn in getting 

cooperation of the victim 

Resource person of Sanlaap conducted participatory discussion on 

the issue of proper rehabilitation process. In this session participants 

mention that police and society have a responsibility to aware a child 

victim about their rights. They also mentioned that they need some 

alternative economic support to improve their life style and the 

proper rehabilitation should possible if we provide them all type of 


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presentation 

Prevention 


Feedback and 

Evaluation 

A general discussion was held with the participants in which four 

groups were created and topics like what should be role of police and 

what should be the role of society in preventing human trafficking 

and assisting the trafficked victims to rehabilitate in the society were 

dwelt upon. 




The participants mentioned that more efforts should be made to 


attempt to spread mass awareness about traffickers and victims 

among their colleagues should be made. They assessed that NGO and 

police should work together to rehabilitate the traffic victim. 


Pre and Post training evaluation form. 


Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





58 96 



65 100 



86 100 




48 100 



55 100 



93 100 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

79 100 

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• The participants said that they learnt different aspects of human trafficking and 

also about the steps to be taken to combat it. 

• The participants also learnt about the right conduct and proper role of police 

personnel when dealing with cases of trafficking and also with the rescued 

victims. 

• The workshop enabled them to understand the different laws and sections like 

ITPA; also they got an insight into the other laws such as JJ Act, Foreigner’s Act. 

• “We learnt that the trafficked victims are forcibly drawn into prostitution by the 

traffickers, and how the victims are brought to the police station and how should 

the police behave with them while questioning”. 


• We also need to involve the local people of the villages and towns – the 

common man and make them aware of trafficking, so that they can also be 

alert and perform their duties as citizens of the country. In this way the work 

of police will also be much easier. 

• Our police officials also need to be made aware and they have to understand 

the gravity of this crime, so that they never take any such incidents lightly and 

build a good rapport with other supporting agencies. 

• The rescued victim needs to be brought back to the mainstream society if they 

have to be properly rehabilitated. 


• One of the participants mentioned that he would definitely try to use the ITPA 

in the right opportune moments so that trafficking can be stopped, and will try 

to set an example by giving severe punishment to the offenders. 

• Participants commented that they would organize such kind of workshops in 

their area with the people so that they can be made aware about the issues of 

trafficking and how does it happen or how to stop it. Their involvement and 

support along with Police can be effective in reducing this menace. 

Problems: 

• We can face problems because of lack of adequate manpower, infrastructure, 

and monetary resources. 

• The IOs of the police station are engaged with so many different works that 

they do not get enough time for the cases of trafficking or missing. 

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objective. 

93 


3 Sessions were well organized and well paced. 100 


interesting. 

100 


Sl. 

No. 


1 Contact Base 100 

2 SLARTC 94 6 

3 SANLAAP 87 13 

4 PTC 100 


Sl. 

No. 


1 Banshi Badan Ghosal Assistant Solicitor Burdwan PS 2569805 

2 Dipak Kumar Paul ASI of police Bhatar PS 2322223 

3 Tapas Kumar Ghosh ASI of police Katwa 9434213566 

4 Basudev Chatterjee Constable 1047 PBX 9932330940 

5 Tribhanga Dhara ASI of police PS K Ghosh 3451262260 

6 Shib Sankar Bagdi ASI of police Purbasthali PS 9732294252 

7 Bimal Ch. Dey Constable 520 Kalichak 53453262100 

8 Tapan Kumar Mitra Constable 3461 Burdwan (S) 9474363841 

9 Rama Kanta Tewari Constable 263 Galsi PS 9832154548 

10 Monoranjan Basak ASI of police Ketugram PS 9932894004 

11 Mithu Biswas Lady Constable 3548 DCRS Bwn 9332120473 

12 Munmun Mukherjee Lady Constable 3516 Women cell Bwn 9732849717 

13 Angura Begam Lady Constable 2876 LOR/ Burdwan 9732193170 

14 Alpana Mukherjee ASI of police W/Cell Burdwan 9434200384 

15 Mahua Chakraborty Lady Constable 2748 LOR/ Burdwan 9433669602 

16 Mita Dutta Lady Constable 3510 C/R BWN 9434711099 

17 Tapan Kr. Raja Constable 1484 CI (B) Sadar Bur 9434195728 

18 Nripen Chandra Sarkar Constable 1962 DEB (S) 9474166933 

19 Subrata Ghosh ASI of police Ausgram PS 9732006846 

20 Sukanta Kr. Dutta ASI of police Memari PS 9433246865 

21 Malay Dutta ASI of police Jamalpur PS 9332223012 

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22 Atreyi Mukherjee LASI CI(A) Sadar 9434250995 

23 Biplab Kumar Dana ASI of police Raina PS 9932108422 

24 Ujjal Choudhury ASI of police RO office 9732386381 

25 Anil Kumar Ghosh ASI of police Mangalkot PS 9732934518 

26 Arjun Ghosh ASI of police Kalna PS 9434473963 

SDPO office 

Katwa 9434543570 

27 Sambhunath Mandal ASI of police 

28 Anup Kr. Chakraborty Constable 1584 Burdwan PS 2664466 

29 Shibshankar Bauri ASI of police Monteswar PS 3732275538 

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District: Burdwan Workshop Dates: 7 th - 8 th Sept, 2007 

Venue: Bengal Engg. & Technological Institute, Durgapur 


Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Raja Chakraborty, Nirmalya Roy, Suravi Sarkar 


Sudipta Dey 



12 ASIs and 19 Constables from Durgapur, Bidhannagar, Asansol, Women cell, Andal, 

NTS, Ballavpur, Barakar, Sanktoria, Raniganj, Nimcha, Pundeswar, Kanksa attended the 

workshop. The participants, mostly lady police constables had experience of rescuing 

victims, and so had a better knowledge about trafficking and ITPA. Rank and gender 

wise number of participants are given below. 

Total 26 05 31 

Shri Dipankar Rudra, IPS, ASP, Durgapur was present in the workshop to address the 

participants. 


Day 1 


ASI 12 00 12 



Purpose 





activity) 


Objectives of the workshop were shared with the participants and 

resource persons were introduced. 

It was observed that some of the participants had the wrong notion 

of prostitution and trafficking being the same. The details are added 

below. 

Resource person from Contact Base asked the participants to form a 

circle. With one clap the participants were to take a step forward, 

with two claps they were to move one step backward. Any one who 

missed a step had to introduce himself/ herself and any one thing 

that they like. This activity was carried out for the purpose of 

introduction as well as creation of a relaxed learning environment. 

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Assessing priority 


trafficking 




Investigation 



labourer. 




In this session the participants identified the different types of crimes 

which takes place in their area like child & women trafficking, 

violence against women, child labour, murder, terrorism etc 


power point presentation as well as group discussion. Most of the 

participants mixed up prostitutions with human trafficking. Different 

issues like Gender discrimination are the main cause of women and 

child trafficking they mentioned. They said that most of the missing 

cases end with human trafficking. They shared that some times they 

found the victim but they failed when the parents of the victim do 

not try to punish the accused. Participants also mentioned Durgapur 

as an industrial area and so they feel, there must be exploitation in 

working fields also. They further mentioned child labour is a big 

problem in this area. Many children come here to work as domestic 

helper. They agreed that Burdwan district as well as Durgapur is a 

big transit zone in the State. 

Participants shared a case where they had rescued some young girl 

from an express train and these girls were on their way to Pune from 

Murshidabad. They also shared that there are many nursing home 

where organ transplantation takes place openly. They also said that 

another crime, female feticide, needs to be addressed immediately 

otherwise women trafficking would not be prevented. The 

participants mentioned that police couldn’t prevent the organized 

crime alone. Our facilitator made a Safety Net along with the help of 

the participants where the participants identified the other 

stakeholders of the society like family, neighbors, doctor, teachers, 

NGOs, police, lawyers etc. to prevent the organized crime. 

A detailed discussion was held with the participants, where the PTC 

trainers identified the situation and conditions, which makes the 

women/ adolescents/ young girls vulnerable and victims to the 

traffickers. The source, transit and destination areas of trafficking, 

also the role, awareness level and behaviour of SOs during 

investigation were discussed. 

Power point presentation was used to explain the concepts of legal 

procedures. The participants were not aware that the customer is also 

punishable under ITPA. They were then sensitized on the 

importance of knowing relevant laws for strengthening prosecution 

and prevention of crime 

Resource person from Contact Base explained the essentiality of 

good body language and expression through an activity where the 

participants were asked to walk around the room at different speeds. 

Then they were asked to express different emotions through their 

body language. They were asked to feel different emotions. 

Emotions that would be needed during interactions with the victim 

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Day 2 

were worked upon. The participants enjoyed the exercise and were 

able to work with their body language and emotions. They agreed 

that body language and perfect expression are very important in their 

profession. 


Purpose 

Warm up and 



Officers in 




















were not aware of proper procedures. They were sensitised on why 

wrapping evidence in cotton was incorrect. They also said that they 

learnt many things from this session especially the wrapping, 

labeling and collection of evidence. They also said that though the 

IOs do this work still their role is of also important. 

Resource person of Sanlaap held the session through a power point 

presentation. Participants mentioned that the victim of such cases 

suffers many kind of mental problems like fear, suicidal, trustless, 

confidence less etc. They also mentioned that the victims who are 

rescued from a brothel never trust any male person because they have 

been earlier subjected to exploitations. So as a police they have to be 

very careful about the matter when they interviewing the victim in 

the police station. 

Resource person of SLARTC discussed the relevant laws and section 

through a power point presentation. The participants mentioned that 

they do not have any idea about JJB and CWC. It was observed that 

after the session they were able to differentiate those children who 

are in need of care and protection and those children who are in 

conflict with law. The participants’ asked if they can get any in 

information on transplantation of human organ then what their role. 

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Rescue and Post 

Recue, Interviewing 

victims 


Prevention 

Feedback and 

Evaluation 

PTC resource persons held a participatory discussion on the 

procedures to be followed at the time of rescue and during the post 

rescue period. The participants shared that it was earlier unknown to 

them that they can get help from the NGOs during theses operations. 

They also shaerd their constraint regarding the lack of enough lady 

police ifficials at the police stations which is a huge deterent. But, 

they appreciated the information of possible NGO help as in such 

case they cann take a lady from NGO for rescue. 

Resource person of Sanlaap conducted participatory discussion on 

proper rehabilitation process. Participants mentioned that police and 

society have a responsibility to make a child victim aware of his/her 

rights. They also mentioned economic support is a critical issue that 

they need some alternative economic support to improve their life 

style and the proper rehabilitation should possible if we provide them 

all type of medical, social, and economic support. They also 

mentioned the family of the victim should understand the mental 

situation of the victim and should provide all kinds of help. 

Through a general discussion the participants identified their role of 

prevent the organized crime. They mentioned they should involve 

maximum source in the vulnerable areas in their locality and they 

should make community-based committee who will help the police. 

After that resource person from SLARTC gave a presentation on 

networking between police, prosecutor & witness, importance of 

presentation of collected evidence ensuring prosecution to prevent 

trafficking. 

It was observed that after the workshop there were many changes in 

the participant’s perception. The observation of the participants is 

summarized below. 



Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





48 90 



37 79 



44 93 


6 Section 511 IPC is the appropriate section to deal with 51 93 

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parlour. 


prostitution. 

37 86 

75 96 

55 100 

89 100 


The participants enjoyed the two days workshop very much but they mentioned they need 

more training on the same issue because when they work in the field, they face many new 

problems. To overcome the problem they require help from the NGOs. They mentioned 

this kind of workshop would give them an open platform to share their experiences in 

future. 

Excerpts of feedback from the participants: 


The participants said that they got to know about human trafficking and how it is 

done, how it can be prevented. 

They also got the information about the proper rehabilitation of the victims. 

They got to know about the laws and procedures related to human trafficking and 

the conception of CSE. They also got the information about CWC and JJB. 

Some of the participant said they got the information of biological evidences and 

its importance in human trafficking. 

They said they were unaware about the proper rescue process, after the workshop 

they would follow the knowledge in the time of rescue in future. 


The participants mentioned that linkage with the different steakholders in society 

like Gram Panchyat, NGOs; teachers of the local schools should be strengthened. 

The participants mentioned that more efforts should be made to gather 

information about the vulnerable areas and persons and also attempt to spread 

mass awareness about traffickers and victims among their colleagues. 


We would like to apply the theories we learnt in the workshop in our practical 

field of work. 

If we get any information related to trafficking we will look into it immediately. 

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We have to be mentally prepared to deal with these kinds of cases, this is our 

duty. We have to make people from different stratas of society aware of this issue 

and get them to be partners to prevent trafficking. 

Problems: 

They face lack of infrastructure. 

They do not have enough lady police officials in the time of rescue. 

They have to work long hours and they do not get any holidays because there is 

lack of manpower. 




objective. 96 

2 Content was presented at the appropriate level. 

3 Sessions were well organized and well paced. 

100 

100 


interesting. 100 


Sl. 

No. 


1 

Contact Base 

100 

2 

SLARTC 

90 10 

3 SANLAAP 100 

4 PTC 96 4 

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Sl. 

No. Name Designation Posted at Phone 

1 SK Abdul Hamid Constable B Zone DGP Ps 9933464062 

2 Jitendra Nath Bhui ASI Asansol Court 9333915289 

3 Abdul Mannan Sk Constable Bidhan nagar OP 9732154303 

4 Joydeb Dutta Constable Ranigang Ps 3211225653 

5 Kedarnath Ghosh Constable Asansol Court 9474694824 

6 Sujit Kr. Nandi ASI Asansol Traffick 9434312660 

7 Ashok Kumr Sur Constable Asansol Cort 3242315484 

8 Amulya Kr. Das Constable Ballavpur OP 9732067175 

9 Shaktipada Kumar Constable ASL Traffick 9434580712 

10 Shtrughna Pandey Constable Sanktoria 9832824126 

11 Hasibar Rahaman Constable Barakar PP 3412520166 

12 Ashutosh Mallick Constable TR Asansol 9232710141 

13 Bhimsen Makralati Constable IKS North 9434362410 

14 Arun Kr. Roy ASI Kanksa PS 9434476978 

15 Swapan Kr. Mandal ASI City Centre 9474367898 

16 Kalyani Pr. Mahanti Constable Kenda PP 9832225540 

17 Nitish Kr. Talukdar ASI CI (B) office DGP 3432555094 

18 Bharat Choudhury ASI NTS PS 9832219907 

19 Uttam Mandal ASI Andal Police Station 9434470943 

20 Tam Chatterjee Constable Andal PS 9339994405 

21 Md. Nurun Nabi ASI Cokeover PS 9434331542 

22 Chinta Haran Sinha ASI Bidhan nagar OP 9832251168 

23 Kakali Banerjee Lady Constable Durgapur PS 9474640193 

24 Sumita Bhowmik Lady Constable Asansol Women cell 9832134451 

25 Kinkar Ch. Das ASI P/swar Ps 9434850147 

26 Ashok Kumar Patra ASI Nimcha 9434480645 

27 Madan Singh Constable Pundbeshwar 9474116572 

28 Swapna Chowdhury Constable Cons-vven Ps 9434535315 

29 Pratima Roy Lady Constable Kanksa PS 947454238 

30 Maitra Ojha Constable Asansol Women cell 9434625292 

31 Yad Ali sk ASI Kanksa PS 713487 

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District : Nadia Workshop Dates: 10 th – 11 th Sept, 2007 

Venue : SP Coferance Hall, Nadia. 


Contact Base: 

Sanlaap: 

SLARTC: 

PTC: 

Raja Chakraborty, Nirmalya Roy, Suravi Sarkar 

Alok Goshwami 

Prasenjit Chakrabarty, Dibbendu Hati, 



18 ASIs and 13 Constables from Hanshkhali, Kaliganj, Haringhata, Krishinaganj, 

Tehhatta ,Krishnanagar Sadar, Dhubulia, Fazil nagar, Dhantala, Chakdaha, Karimpur, 

Taherpur, Kotwali thana, Nakashipara police stations attended the workshop. The 

participants were not very much aware of the ramifications of trafficking and the relevant 

laws which may enable them to take prompt and effective action. Rank and gender wise 

number of participants is detailed below. 

Designation Male Female Total 

ASI 18 00 18 


Total 18 13 31 

Shri Hari Kishore Kusumakar, IPS, SP of Nadia was present during the feedback session 

of the workshop and Shri Subrata Mitra, IPS, Addl. SP was present in the workshop to 

give away the certificates to the participants. 


Day-1 

Session Title & Purpose 





Description 

Resource persons were introduced and the objectives 

of the workshop were shared with the participants. 

Many of the participants who had been involved in 

the rescue processes shared their experiences. But 

conceptions on ITPA were found to be lacking in 

clarity. According to the participants mainly the IOs 

are involved in the implementation of IPC. The 

details are listed below. 

In this session participants prioritized crimes like 

Child & Women trafficking, violence against women, 

child labour, murder, terrorism, rape & murder, drug 

peddling, female foeticide etc. This session was held 

to asses the urgency amongst the participants in 

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Identification of offenders, victim 

and chain of evidence collection 


IPC, Case study sharing 

dealing with Human Trafficking. 

The participants agreed that gender issue is a big 

problem in our society. Women and children are 

vulnerable and traffickers work upon their weakness 

to gain their trust. They also admitted not having the 

knowledge of the different causes and purposes of 

human trafficking. Through a Power Point 

presentation they understood the route of trafficking 

and the vulnerable position of India and West Bengal 

especially their home district. Participants also 

mentioned that Nadia district is a source and transit 

point for human trafficking. Many lady constables 

were found to have had the experience of rescuing 

trafficked victims. They also shared some of their 

experiences. Some of the PS of the district are near 

the Bangladesh border hence cross border incidents 

are very common for the participants to deal with. 

They mentioned that the BSF also rescued people 

who come from Bangladesh. But police personnel 

sometimes do not understand whether the person is 

trafficked or not because they do not have any proper 

documents, that’s why they implement 14, F. Act in 

such cases. They also iterated that police alone cannot 

prevent these crimes. After the group discussion 

“Safety net” activity was taken up to make the 

participants understand and identify other 

stakeholders like family members, teachers, doctors, 

NGOs, police, lawyers etc. who can be partners in 

preventing trafficking in our society. 

PTC trainer discussed the issue of identification of 

victims, traffickers and evidence collection in an 

interactive session. Participants agreed that they do 

not get to identify the traffickers easily as in most of 

the cases they are people who are known to the 

victim. They also discussed the situations and causes 

that make women and children vulnerable. 

Participants mentioned that they collect information 

from different types of sources who are identified by 

the police. They also mentioned that a victim could 

also become a good source of intelligence as she/he 

knows the real picture of the place of offence. 

The facilitator of SLARTC held a lecture based 

session on the relevant sections of IPC and ITPA. 

Before the session participants did not have clarity on 

actions to be taken in case of a woman who is into 

commercial sex but says she is in this profession on 

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Group discussion and presentation 

her own will. Particularly whether such a woman 

should be treated as a victim or not. But after 

discussion on ITPA their conception changed. They 

also mentioned that Section 511 IPC is not the 

appropriate law to deal with cases of trafficking. 

There further mentioned that many sections of ITPA 

are more effective than IPC, because ITPA 

particularly mentions about Immoral Trafficking. 

A general discussion was held with the participants in 

which two groups were created and topics like ‘A 

woman rescued from a brothel means she is a 

prostitute’, ‘The role of society in preventing human 

trafficking and rehabilitation of survivors’. 

Day 2 



Description 

The day started with an activity on alertness where the 

facilitator directed the participants to stand in four lines 

and whenever the facilitator called out a direction the 

participants were to point the direction opposite to the 

one called out by the facilitator. After this activity, 

each participant was given a slip in which a character 

was written, the participants needed to identify the 

character as either a victim or an accused. This activity 

was conducted to understand whether the participants 

have gone through any change of perception after the 

last day’s sessions. 

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Assisting Police Officers in 

Investigation and intelligence 

gathering 

Mental health issue Rescue and 

post rescue care of victims 

Laws and procedures on 

exploitative labour, organ 

transplantation, Foreigner’s Act, 

IT Act, Juvenile Justice 


observation and communication 

skills 

PTC resource persons held a lecture-based session. The 

participants were not aware of legal implications of 

procedures in collecting evidence. They were 

sensitized on issues like why wrapping evidence in 

cotton was incorrect. They appreciated the knowledge 

they got from this session especially the wrapping, 

labeling and collection of evidence. Participants shared 

that though these are primarily the job of IOs yet, their 

role is also important. They iterated that during rescue 

they should search the room carefully. They shared that 

SOs only carry out orders from the IOs in most cases 

which at times makes the process slow. The Lady 

officials asked about the steps to be taken in cases 

where victims do not interact with them. One of the 

participants shared his experience of a case where he 

got the name of the prime accused from the customers 

register book and arrested him. He said such kind of 

documents can be helpful in their investigation and at 

the time of trial and conviction. 

Sanlaap facilitator elaborated, Police rescue the 

victims. But, before this positive action in their lives, 

the victims lead a vulnerable and exploited life. And 

these happenings leave a deep impact on their mental 

set up. For these reasons victim at times lie, he/ she 

suffer an identity crisis, fear, mistrust etc. 

SLARTC started the session with a case study 

involving three minors, where one (Indian) had 

trafficked the other two from Bangladesh, the 

participants pointed out who should be sent to JJB and 

who should be sent to CWC. Discussions helped in 

clarifying concepts on relevant laws. They were 

sensitized on proper procedure of repatriation instead 

of “push back”. The participant mentioned that they do 

follow the system of “push back” frequently in case of 

Bangladeshi nationals but they now understand that 

this system violates their human rights. They asked the 

facilitator about the correct steps to be taken by them in 

cases where a foreigner stays in our country for 

religious purposes. They also mentioned that some 

foreigners stay in Mayapur without proper documents. 

Before starting the activity on communication skill 

development the participants were asked about which 

is the most important part of their body which is used 

in investigation, to which they answered “eyes”. The 

participants then stood in a circle and exchanged their 

places with each-other keeping their eye contact intact. 

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They realized that eye contact is a very important 

aspect of verbal as well as non-verbal communication 

whether it is for observation, intimidating an offender 

or comforting a victim 

The participants mentioned that more efforts should be 

made to gather information on the vulnerable areas and 

persons, and also attempts needs to be made to raise 

the awareness levels of their colleagues on the matter. 

They also emphasized upon the importance of keeping 

in touch with the local Panchayat and people of their 

area. 

Pre and Post Training Evaluation Form 


Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





56 96 



76 100 



63 96 




60 100 



53 90 



83 100 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

96 100 

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Participants commented that the workshop gave them insight on ways and means, 

routes adopted by traffickers and how to identify them. 

According to participants, the knowledge on relevant laws that they got from the 

workshop have truly empowered them to take effective actions. 

Participants stated that they now have clearer idea of where to send whom in case 

of rescued survivors. 

“The workshop has capacitated me in new laws like ITPA which I was hitherto 

unaware of”. 

Participants shared that the workshop has enabled them to be empathetic to the 

rescued victim’s condition when they are being brought to the police station, and 

treat them more humanely. That good behavior should be the key in gaining trust 

of these victims. 

Rescue and Rehabilitation of the trafficked victims are two most important 

aspects to which the future of the victims is linked, as the mainstreaming of the 

rescued girls into the society is a very difficult task, which needs to be carefully 

looked after or else they may be again drawn back to the same vortex of 

trafficking or prostitution. The workshop helped them to realize the gravity of 

these situations and they will be more careful and observant in their approach 

from now. 

“We have got a clearer knowledge about the different Acts for combating human 

trafficking like the JJ Act 2000, Child Labour Act 1986, ITPA, T.H.O. Act 1994”. 


Infrastructure needs to be developed to combat the menace more effectively. 

More vigilance and assistance from the local NGOs and other eminent 

personalities should be sought. We should be in constant touch with them, so that 

a concerned society can be formed. 


Participants were of the opinion that from the learning’s that they got from this 

training program they would assist their IOs in case of investigation and ensure 

arrest to the best of their capability. 

Participants shared that if they improve upon their behavior with people then it 

will go a long way for them to work more effectively. 

Participants were of the view that increased vigilance in the source, transit and 

destination areas would help in preventing the crime. 

Participants commented that in a case of trafficking, for conviction they need to 

be more alert and prompt regarding witnesses and other details. Then only they 

can get success in conviction of an offender. 

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Problems: 

More information about these Acts to other officials and police personnel should 

be circulated otherwise problems might arise, as they would be unaware of how 

and when to use these laws. 




objective. 

74 




interesting. 

96 


Sl. 

No. 


1 Contact Base 96 4 

2 SLARTC 96 4 

3 SANLAAP 100 

4 PTC 94 6 

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Sl. 

No. 


1 Some Chakraborty Lady Constable Hanskhali 9339903882 

2 Soma Dutta Lady Constable Kaligunj 9332142714 

3 Ruma Dhali Lady Constable Haringhata 9732636584 

4 Pronoti Ghosh Lady Constable Police Office PG 9434506158 

5 Gopa Biswas Lady Constable Krishnaganj 9732567047 

6 Suchitra Mandal Lady Constable Tehatta 9732724290 

7 Shipra Biswas Lady Constable Krishnagar Sadar Court 9231623277 

8 Rina Karmakar Lady Constable Chakdaha 9332416659 

9 Aloka Hazra Lady Constable Line OR 9239208086 

10 Puspa Banerjee Lady Constable Line OR 9434178246 

11 Santosh Saha ASI Dubulia 9434321934 

12 Md. Kamaruzzaaman ASI Hanskhali 9434322213 

13 Arun Kr. Singh ASI Fazil Nagar 9733554810 

14 

Suprabhat Roy 

Chattopadhyay ASI Dhantala 9732151731 

15 Rousan Ali Sk ASI Chakdaha 9732852972 

16 Sundargopal Roy ASI Karimpur 9434135352 

17 Swarup Kr. Paul ASI Kalyani PS 9732887989 

Krishnanagar Sadar 

18 Bikash Ch. Sardar ASI 

Court 9434952805 

19 Amulya Das ASI Santipur 9932295663 

20 Tapan Kr. Chakraborty ASI Mayapur Camp 9836042527 

21 Sk. Aminul Hoque ASI Computer Cell 9433960006 

22 Krishna Kundu Lady Constable Dhubulia 9434552741 

23 Tuzammal Haque ASI Taherpur 9434825506 

24 Indrajit Mandal ASI Kotwali 9232486278 

25 Sandip Das ASI Dist Server 9434134915 

26 Arun Kr. Som ASI Kotwali (N) 9434302784 

27 Ekbalpur Rahaman ASI Hoglabaria 9932749240 

28 Gour Gopal Ganguly ASI Nakashipara 9733074306 

29 Lata Sarkar Lady Constable Nakashipara 9231621771 

30 Goutam Adhikary ASI Hoglabaria 9732887884 

31 Mithu Haldar (Das) Lady Constable Women Cell 9474418112 

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District: Nadia Workshop Dates: 12 th - 13 th Sept, 2007 

Venue : SP Conference Hall, Krishnanagar, Nadia 

Resource Persons: 

Contact Base: Nirmalya Roy, Sushanta Mukhaerjee, Suravi Sarkar, Subrata Dey 

PTC: Rajendra Mitra, Anirban Chakbarty 

SLARTC: Dibyendu Hati 

Sanlaap: Alok Goswami 

Participants Profile: 

17 ASIs and 15 Constables from Hanshkhali, Kaliganj, Haringhata, Krishinaganj, 

Tehhatta, Krishnanagar Sadar, Dhubulia, Fazil nagar, Dhantala, Chakdaha, Kalyani, 

Hogolberia, Santipur, Police line, Ranaghat, Karimpur, Taherpur, Kotwali thana, 

Nakashipara, Dist. Server police stations attended the workshop. Rank and Gender wise 

number of participants are given below. 


ASI 16 01 17 


Total 16 16 32 


Day-1 






Description 

We shared the objective of the workshop with the 

participants and introduce them with the resource 

persons. 

Some participants were found to be familiar with 

ITPA but merely as a term they had heard earlier. 


Through an activity participants introduced 

themselves, where the facilitator directed the 

participants to close their eyes and answer his claps 

by clapping themselves. The participant who failed to 

carry out the directions of the facilitator had to 

introduce him/ her to the entire group. 

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and chain of evidence collection. 

In this session participants were asked to prioritize 

the top crimes of their area and they identified human 

trafficking, violence against women, child labour, 

murder, terrorism, Rape & murder, drug peddling, 

infiltration etc. This session was conducted with an 

aim at understanding how much seriousness the 

participants attached to the spreading menace of 

Human Trafficking. 

Power point presentation followed by group 

discussion was held to clarify the concepts on Human 

Trafficking. Participants identified poverty as the sole 

reason behind human trafficking. Different issues 

like Gender discrimination of which the women are at 

the receiving end and the problem, which arises out 

of male- female discrimination, were discussed. Child 

and Women’s Right and their vulnerable conditions 

which make them easy targets of trafficking was also 

discussed. Concepts like missing persons could also 

be trafficked, the different routes/channels of 

trafficking, what for trafficking is being done, what 

are the reasons for getting trafficked were also 

clarified. Participants said that they understood a new 

dimension of Human trafficking that was hitherto 

unknown to them. They also mentioned that Nadia 

district is highly vulnerable and it is a source and 

transit point. Participants further shared that they 

rescued many Bangladeshi minor girls from 

Krishnanagar town area and also sometime raid the 

hotels situated on the National Highway 34. They 

mentioned Hogolberia as a highly vulnerable area in 

their district. 

An interactive session was held by the PTC trainer 

where issues like any one can become a victim of 

trafficking were discussed. The facilitator further 

explained that a trafficker can be from anywhere or 

anyone around us, he/she can be a known or an 

unknown person whom we see in our daily life but 

that, a trafficker will be a person who is familiar with 

the victim or people associated with the victim. The 

participants mentioned that they collect information 

from the different types of sources who are identified 

by the police person. They also mentioned that a 

victim should be a good source of intelligence as they 

know the real picture of the place of offence. They 

agreed that police should maintain a good 

communication with the local Panchyat, public and 

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Activity for improving observation 

and communication skills 

schools also. 

The facilitator from SLARTC held a lecture based 

session on the relevant sections of IPC and ITPA. 

Participants prior to the session were found to be 

having the misconception that prostitution itself is a 

crime. But after the session, their perception changed. 

One of the participants shared a case that took place 

two years ago where they rescued a minor girl from 

Santipur Khalpar Brothel, but the accused did not 

get any punishment because the police failed to 

produce proper evidences before the court. 

Before this session, the participants were asked about 

the most important part of their body that they need 

for observation and identification of traffickers and 

victims, to which they all answered - eyes. The 

facilitator then directed one person to leave the room 

and come back only when he is directed to do so by 

the facilitator himself. In the mean time all of the 

participants were to choose a leader among them. The 

leader initiated activities that the others were to 

follow. The person sent out of the room was then 

called in and directed to identify the leader from 

amongst the group. Participants later shared their 

realization form the activity that observation skill is 

very important not only for investigation but also for 

identifying an offender or a victim. 

Day 2 



Description 

The day started with an activity on flexibility for warm 

up. Then each participant was handed over a chit where 

a character was written. The participants were to 

identify the characters as either a victim or an accused. 

This activity was undertaken to understand the change 

of perception of the participants that they may have 

gathered from the previous day’s sessions. 

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Assisting Police Officers in 

Investigation and intelligence 

gathering. 

Mental health issue Rescue and post 

rescue care of victims 

Laws and procedures on exploitative 

labour, organ transplantation, 

Foreigner’s Act, IT Act, Juvenile 

Justice 

Rescue, Interviewing victims and 

counseling 


PTC resource persons held a lecture-based session. The 

participants were not aware of proper procedures of 

investigation. They were sensitized on aspects like why 

wrapping evidence in cotton was incorrect. Participants 

appreciated the knowledge they gathered in this session 

on the wrapping, labeling and collection of evidence. 

They also said that before the discussion they did not 

have clear idea on how to collect evidences. The 

facilitator also discussed about the essentiality of 

collecting hair and blood samples as evidences in cases 

of trafficking. 

Sanlaap facilitator in this session explained in details 

the various mental stages that a victim or survivor of 

trafficking goes through. She iterated that Police rescue 

the victims but, before this positive movement in the 

victim’s life, they lead a vulnerable and exploited life. 

And these incidences of their lives have a huge impact 

on their mental health. For that reason the victims at 

times lie, he/ she suffer from identity crisis, fear, 

mistrust etc. The facilitator also discussed about the 

Shelter Homes, Short stay Home, and shared their 

experiences in dealing with such cases. 

Facilitator from SLARTC shared a case study on three 

minors, where one (Indian) had trafficked the other two 

from Bangladesh, the participants identified who 

should be sent to JJB and who to CWC. Discussions 

helped in clarifying concepts on relevant laws. They 

were sensitized on proper procedure of repatriation 

instead of “push back”. The participants mentioned that 

they are habituated to the push back system, but they 

observed that the process of push back is very 

exploitative. Nadia is a district which shares its border 

with Bangladesh so, it is very important to improve the 

system of push back for the survival of the victims 

from Bangladesh. 

PTC resource persons held a lecture-based session. 

The lady police officials were found to be unaware of 

their role at the time of rescue. They mentioned that 

usually, IOs interview the victims in their presence. 

They also mentioned lack of infrastructural support as 

one of the major impediments. Particularly they sited 

issues like not being paid single paisa for the rescue 

process and unavailability of lady staff at PS during 

rescue and post rescue operations. 

Participants were divided in four groups for holding a 

group discussion where participants deliberated on 

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Prevention 


topics like ‘Role of Police’ and ‘Role of society’ in 

preventing human trafficking and ‘Assisting survivors 

of trafficking in rehabilitation’. 

SLARTC gave a presentation on networking between 

police, prosecutor & witness, importance of 

presentation of collected evidence ensuring prosecution 

to prevent trafficking. 

The participants mentioned that more efforts need to be 

made to gather information about the vulnerable areas 

and persons. Attempts also need to be made to raise the 

level of awareness among their colleagues about 

traffickers and victims. They assessed that it is 

important to keep in touch with the local Panchayat, 

NGOs, Clubs, Schools and people of their area. They 

need more help and information from the general 

people also. 

Pre and Post Training Evaluation Form. 


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71 100 



60 97 




56 100 



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parlour. 


prostitution. 

90 100 

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Participants emphasized that the different ways of trafficking and the purposes for 

which people are trafficked and also the different routes of trafficking were 

hitherto unknown to them 

The participants were very keen to learn the different Acts of trafficking like the 

JJ Act 2000, Child Labour Act 1986, ITPA, IPC, Organ transplantation Act, 

T.H.O. Act 1994. 

Participants appreciated the workshop as they shared that it will help them in 

coping with the different situations under which the victims are brought to the 

police stations. 

Participants also felt empowered and they shared that the knowledge of law that 

they got from the workshop would enable them to understand their applications 

according to different circumstances. 

Participants realized the need for bringing improvement in their behavior while 

dealing with the rescued victims, and how human mental state/ condition are 

directly linked with the victim’s behavior. 

They also shared that they learnt about the different possible options where the 

rescued victims can be sent during the trial period or for rehabilitation. 


 

 

The participants felt the need for raising the awareness of the different sections of 

society so that trafficking can be combated at the core level. 

Cooperation from the NGOs and to the NGOs should be given so that they can 

provide assistance in tackling the issues of trafficking. The NGOs can also be 

effective in the post-rescue period of the victims and their rehabilitation, so a 

rapport building should be established with them on constant basis. 


The participants mentioned that they will be more vigilant and if they find any 

case of trafficking or missing they would act upon it immediately, and they would 

also ensure that the people around them are more aware of what is happening and 

take actions to prohibit them. 

They emphasized on the need of good behavior and why it is necessary not to 

treat the rescued victims in the same way as an accused. 

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objective. 

100 




interesting. 

96 


Sl. 

No. 



2 SLARTC 96 3 

3 SANLAAP 100 

4 PTC 93 7 

Contact Base 74



Sl. 


1 Rajendra Banerjee ASI Hanskhali 9434420718 

2 Bimal Paul ASI Thanapara 9836826197 

3 Sibnath Das ASI Dhubulia 9732911718 

4 Prankrishna Das ASI Dhubulia 9434504712 

5 Debnath Ghosal ASI Santipur 9433276702 

6 Sushil Ch. Ghosh ASI Nakashipara 9434953795 

7 Provat Biswas ASI Dhubulia 9434552478 

8 Sanjit Kr. Pal ASI Katwali 9732858490 

9 Md. Rejaul Hossain ASI Santipur 9433373290 

10 Umaguha Thakur Lady Constable Kalyani 9474418095 

11 Ashima Biswas Lady ASI Santipur 262296 

12 Minati Dey Lady Constable Kaliganj 9232687640 

13 Basanti Ghosh Lady Constable Police Line 9231650904 

14 Nandita Halder Lady Constable Tehatta 3471250221 

15 Susama Sardar Lady Constable Nakashipara 9733708913 

16 Mitali Chakraborty Lady Constable Shantipur 9734044787 

17 Tandra Basu Lady Constable Chakdaha 9733710900 

18 Ratna Patra Lady Constable Chapra 9732694422 

19 Ruma Roy Lady Constable Krishnagar 9733837438 

20 Sima Ghosh Lady Constable Kotwali 9474610108 

21 Swati Biswas Lady Constable Line 9733892002 

Krishnagar Police 

22 Lily Sarkar Lady Constable 

Line 9733946414 

Krishnagar Police 

Line 9734044289 

23 Swapna Adhikari Lady Constable 

24 Sangita Mandal Lady Constable Panaghat court 9330945565 

25 Uttam Kr. Sarkar ASI Santipur 9474137394 

26 Sajal Chowdhury ASI Tehatta 9434954501 

27 Sirajul Haque ASI Kalyani 9433512255 

28 Ashima Kr. Chakraborty ASI Hogolbaria 9339356262 

29 Krishnendu Hazra ASI Hogolberia 9732441372 

30 Mousumi Biswas (Das) Lady Constable Kalyani SDPO Office 9733579579 

31 Satyajit Roy Asst Sub Inspector Chapra 9434371093 

32 Paritosh Halder Asst Sub Inspector Chapra 9474595271 

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District: Murshidabad Workshop Dates: 21 st - 22 nd Sept, 2007 

Venue: SP Conference Hall, Berhampore 


Contact Base: Nirmalya Roy, Shri Abhijit Ghose, Subrata Dey 

PTC: 

Rajendra Mitra, Anirban Chakrabarty 


Sanlaap: Alok Goswami 

Participant Profile: 

16 ASIs and 13 Constables from Suti, Nabarun IC, Khargram, Salar, 

Murshidabad,Sagardighi, Islampur, hariharpara, Doulatabad, Domkol, women Cell, 

Reserve Office, Kandi, Berhampore, sadar Court, Bharatpur, Jiaganj, Bhagwangola, 

Jalangi, Beldanga, Raninagar, Raghunathganj attended the workshop. Though the 

participants had heard of trafficking yet, they did not have any detail knowledge of the 

same. Thy also did not have much idea about the different section of ITPA. Rank and 



ASI 13 03 16 


Total 24 05 29 

Shri Mohan Bhattacharya, DSP (DIB), was present in the workshop to address the 

participants and give them the certificates. 


Day-1 





The resource persons were introduced to the 

participants and the objectives of the workshop were 

shared. 


Getting to know each other(ice 


Ac activity was taken up where the facilitator 

directed the participants to listen carefully to his 

claps. On one clap, they were to step forward and on 

two claps, they were to move back ward. The 

participants later commented that the exercise 

required a mix of skills like concentration, alertness 

and listening. After this theatre based exercise, the 

participants introduced themselves. 

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An activity was carried out to assess at present how 

much importance the participants attach to a crime 

like human trafficking. During the activity, women 

trafficking, rape & murder, violence against women, 

child labour, murder, terrorism, drug peddling, female 

feticide were the prime crimes identified by the 

participants. 

The participants agreed that population explosion is a 

big problem for our society. They further iterated that 

women and children are vulnerable and traffickers 

use their weakness to gain their trust. They also 

mentioned not having the knowledge of the different 

causes and purposes of human trafficking. The 

session helped them understand the route of 

trafficking and the vulnerable position of India and 

West Bengal especially their home district. 

Participants identified Murshidabad district as a 

major source and transit point with respect to human 

trafficking and further commented that the concepts 

of trafficking were not clear to them before. 

PTC trainer discussed the topic through an interactive 

session. Participant mentioned that though 

identification of traffickers is difficult but through 

proper source, knowledge of subject and 

determination offenders could be stop. They also 

mentioned that a victim could be a good source of 

information as they know the real picture of the place 

of offence. 

The facilitator of SLARTC held a lecture-based 

session on the relevant sections of IPC, CRPC and 

ITPA. It was observed that very few of the 

participants had idea about ITPA. 

Creation of a situation helped the participants to think 

and reflect upon the solution to the situation given. 

This activity also helped the participants to prepare 

their mind and increase the retention of information 

from the following session. The participants 

Contact Base 77


Investigation 

commented that they feel that they can now 

remember the learning for a longer time. 


The participants were not aware of proper 

investigation procedures. They were sensitized on 

aspects like, why wrapping evidence in cotton was 

incorrect. Participants said that they learned many 

things from this session especially age identification, 

the wrapping, labeling and collection of evidence. 

They asked questions on aspects like, for ideal 

investigation technique what are the process that 

should be followed and how best to assist police 

officers in investigation and intelligence gathering. 

Day 2 



Story telling and Mental health issue 


victims 




Justice 

Rescue and Post Rescue Session 


Before this particular activity started the participants 

were asked to identify the most important part of their 

body for observation and identification of traffickers 

and victims to which everybody answered ‘Eyes’. The 

participants then stood in a circle and exchanged their 

places keeping their eye contact intact. They realized 

that eye contact is very important aspect of 

communication and can be used in many ways, 

whether it is for observation, or for intimidating an 


Through an image making activity and sharing a 

trafficked victim’s story the facilitator from Sanlaap 

built an environment to make the participants 

understand and empathize with the situation of a victim 

and his/her mental health. He then discussed the mental 

health condition of the victims. 

A case study of three minors was shared by the 

facilitator from SLARTC where one minor (Indian) 

had trafficked the other two minors from Bangladesh. 

The case study sharing was followed by a discussion 

where the participants identified who should be sent to 

JJB and who to CWC. Discussion helped in clarifying 

concepts on relevant laws. They were sensitized on 

proper procedure of repatriation instead of “push 

back”. 

PTC trainer through a participatory discussion 

explained the different aspects and resources available 

for rescue and post rescue procedures, care and 

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Prevention 


counselling. Partcipants shared that during rescue the 

belongings of victim should be collected as later on 

sometimes if the victim goes back to the same place for 

collecting her belongings she always runs the risk of 

getting retrafficked. 

Resource person from Sanlaap conducted participatory 

discussion on the issue of proper rehabilitation process. 

In this session, participants mentioned that police and 

society have a responsibility to make child victims 

aware of their rights. They also mentioned that they 

need some alternative economic support to improve 

their life style and that proper rehabilitation would only 

be possible if the victims are provided with all types of 


A general discussion was carried out with the 

participants for which, they were divided in four 

groups and each group were given topics like what 

should be role of police and what should be the role of 

society in preventing human trafficking and assisting a 

victim of trafficking in rehabilitation in the society. 

To prevent human trafficking every member of the 

society should come forward and make a safety net to 

prevent it. The same point was reiterated through a 

theatre based exercise where a one participant who was 

identified as a small child from a community was 

asked to stand at the centre of the room. The facilitator 

then asked all the participants that if they as the 

members of the community need to protect this child 

from evils like human trafficking who are the people 

who should play active roles in the life of the child. 

The participants then one by one identified various 

entities like parents, teachers, panchayat, NGOs, police 

etc. This activity helped the participants to identify the 

other stakeholders in combating trafficking in a simple 

and participative manner. 

PTC gave a presentation on networking between 

police, prosecutor & witness, importance of 

presentation of collected evidence in ensuring 

prosecution to prevent trafficking. 

The participants mentioned that Police and NGOs 

should work in close coordination for protecting the 

vulnerable areas and persons and also attempt needs to 

be made to raise the awareness about traffickers and 

victims among their colleagues. They iterated the 

importance of keeping in touch with the local 

Panchayats and people of their area. 

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parlour. 


prostitution. 

71 96 

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Excerpts from feedback by the participants: 


One of the participants commented that the fact of women and children being most 

vulnerable and easy targets of the traffickers was a new learning for him. 

“We came to know of what should be the proper behavior when we are dealing with 

or questioning the rescued victims so that they should not feel intimidated by us. These 

victims must have suffered a lot and their trust must have been broken many a times, so 

we should work towards restoring that first. ” 


Local people and youths need to be involved to address and combat trafficking. 


Some of the participants commented that the knowledge they gained from the 

workshop will be of great help to them in dealing with the cases of trafficking 

in future as they are now aware that they can perform checks or raids at the 

hotels, prostitute quarters, tea stalls, and motels under specific sections of 

ITPA. 

Some participants also commented that during their night patrolling if they 

find any suspicious vehicle then now they are aware that they can check them. 

Some participants were of the opinion that as police personnel they can also 

educate people about trafficking, how traffickers take advantage of the 

vulnerable conditions of the poor and helpless and encourage them to be 

vigilant. 

Problems: 

Some participants were of the opinion that it is difficult to identify cases of 

trafficking. 

Lack of awareness among people was sited as one of the major hindrance in 

combating the crime. 

Lack of proper infrastructure was identified as another possible hindrance in 

carrying out the combat against trafficking effectively. 

Some of the participants shared that the lack of trust and coordination between 

public and police can also become a hurdle in the way of prevention of this 

crime as people don’t support or help police in preventing crime. 

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No. 


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objective. 




96 

interesting. 


Sl. 

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2 SLARTC 0 

3 SANLAAP 0 

4 PTC 96 


Sl. 


1 Dibyendu Singha ASI Nabarun IC 03455-253242 

2 Balaram Mandal ASI Suti 9474579872 

3 Bimal Mandal Constable Khargram 9474319107 

4 Ananda Mondal ASI Murshidabad 9433660771 

5 Nabani Mukherjee ASI Sagar 9434095475 

6 Dhirendra Nath Bagdi ASI Islampur 9474306973 

7 Ramchandra Ghosh ASI Hariharpara 9734468221 

8 Anup Kumar Shil ASI Doulatabad 9434460219 

9 Swapan Kr. Baidya ASI Salar 9433423326 

10 Purnima Banerjee Lady ASI Reserve Office 9474320526 

11 Sunetra Bhattacherjee Lady ASI Women Cell 03482-263140 

Berhampur Police 

12 Bina Kundu (Bagchi) Constable Lines 9434853719 

Berhampur Police 

13 Anjusree Khan Constable Lines 9332927206 

14 Promode Kumar Saha Constable Domkal 9733509665 

15 Monowara Khatun Lady ASI 

Berhampur Sadar 

Court 9474320531 

Contact Base 82


16 Narayan Chandra Das ASI Bharatpur 9932257360 

17 Ismail Sardar Constable Raninagar 9232641719 

18 Ashok Sardar Constable Ranitala 9733533626 

19 Uttam Kumar Ghosh Constable Nabagram 95382-258250 

20 Pancha Narayan Mandal Constable Berhampur 9932929730 

Meghakanti 

Bhattacharjee Constable Kandi 9434856927 

21 

22 Profulla Ghosh ASI Jiaganj 9733025027 

23 Swapan Barman ASI Bhagawangola 9474317293 

24 Paritosh Ghosh Constable Jalangi 9933134343 

25 Lakshmikanta Halder ASI Beldanga 9232772567 

26 Sankar Banerjee ASI Raninagar 9732949908 

27 Bebasish Sanyal Constable Lalgola 9434202783 

28 Tusarkanti Karan Constable Raghunathgunge 9932301047 

29 Rajendra Kr. Saha Constable Samshergunj 9733829952 

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District: Murshidabad Workshop Dates: 24 th - 25 th Sept, 2007 

Venue : SP Conference Hall, Berhampur 


Contact Base: Nirmalya Roy, Abhijit Ghosh, Subrata Dey 

PTC: Rajendra Mitra, Anirban Chakbarty 


12 ASIs and 16 Constables from Suti, Nabarun IC, Khargram, Salar, Lalgola, 

Samserganj, Farakka, Ranitala, Murshidabad, Sagardighi, Islampur, Hariharpara, 

Doulatabad, Domkol, Women Cell, Reserve Office, Kandi, Berhampore, Sadar Court, 

Bharatpur, Jiaganj, Bhagwangola, Jalangi, Beldanga, Raninagar, Raghunathganj attended 

the workshop. It was observed that the participants lacked in depth knowledge of ITPA. 

Rank and gender wise number of participants are given below. 


ASI 10 02 12 


Total 23 05 28 

Shri Mohan Bhattarcharya, DSP (DIB), was present in the workshop to address the 

participants and give certificates. 


Day-1 




Description 


participants and the resource persons were 

introduced. 

The details are listed in the table below. 

Getting to know each other(ice 


Introduction of the participants along with ice 

breaking was attempted through an activity. The 

facilitator directed the participant to listen to his 

claps. On one clap they had to step forward and on 

two claps they had to move back ward. After the 

exercise participants commented that this exercise 

was a mixture of concentration, alertness and 

listening skills. Participants introduced themselves 

Contact Base 84


after this activity. 



Investigation 


and chain of evidence collection 

Rescue, Interviewing victims and 

counseling 

In this session participants prioritized women 

trafficking, Rape & murder, violence against women, 

child labour, murder, terrorism, drug peddling, female 

feticide etc as the primary crimes of our society. 


The participants were not aware of proper procedures 

of investigation. They were sensitized on why 

wrapping evidence in cotton was incorrect. 

Participants mentioned that they learnt many things 

from this session especially the wrapping, labeling 

and collection of evidence. Participants asked 

questions on ideal investigation techniques and 

process to be followed and assisting Police officers in 

investigation and intelligence gathering. 

PTC trainer discussed the topic through an interactive 

session. Participants mentioned that though 

identification of traffickers is difficult but through 

proper source, knowledge on subject and 

determination, offenders could be stopped. They also 

mentioned that a victim may be a good source 

because they know the real picture of the place of 

offence. 


The participants shared their apprehensions regarding 

lack of infrastructural support during rescue and 

post rescue operations and the correct steps to be 

taken under such circumstances. 

Contact Base 85


Day 2 



Laws and procedures on CSE, IPC, 

case study sharing 




Justice 


Story telling and Mental health issue 


victims 




The day started with last day’s recapitulation. Then 

participants went on to an activity to improve upon 

their eye contact as an important means of verbal and 

non-verbal communication. As directed by the 

facilitator, the participants stood in a circle and 

exchanged their places keeping their eye contact intact. 

Participants commented that they realized eye contact 

as a very important aspect not only for observation but 

also for intimidating an offender or comforting a 

victim. 

PTC facilitator held the session on the relevant sections 

of IPC, CrPC and ITPA. Very few participants were 

aware about ITPA. 

In this session, a case study of three minors, where one 

(Indian) had trafficked the other two from Bangladesh, 

was shared with the participants where they then 

identified who should be sent to JJB and who to CWC. 

Discussion helped in clarifying concepts on relevant 

laws. 

A situation was created with the participants to enable 

them to retain the knowledge gained from the previous 

session better. Participants commented that they feel 

hey can remember it for long time. 

Through an image making activity and sharing a 

trafficked victim’s story the facilitator built an 

environment to make the participants understand the 

situation of the victim and his/her mental health. 

Contact base discussed the mental health condition of 

the victims. 

Resource person of Contact Base conducted 

participatory discussion on the issue of proper 

rehabilitation process. In this session participants 

mentioned that earlier they didn’t have the list of 

Rehabilitation centers and how the victims can get 

proper rehabilitation through social and economic 

support. 

A general discussion was held with the participants in 

which four groups were created and topics like what 

should be role of police and what should be the role of 

society in preventing human trafficking and assisting 

Contact Base 86



Prevention 


the trafficked victims to rehabilitate in the society. 

An activity for building a ‘Safety Net’ was taken up in 

this session to enable better understanding of the 

participants on other stakeholders in combating human 

trafficking. 

PTC gave a presentation on networking between police, 

prosecutor & witness, importance of presentation of 

collected evidence ensuring prosecution to prevent 

trafficking. 

The participants mentioned that to sensitized 

community on the issue of Human trafficking Police 

and NGOs should move together to protect the 

vulnerable areas and persons. Participants mentioned 

that they will try to collect information regularly 

through sources from vulnerable areas. 



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60 93 



67 96 




64 78 



60 78 



85 96 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

85 92 

Contact Base 87


Excerpts of feedback from the participants: 


Participants commented that they learnt about the ways and means of human 

trafficking 

Some of the participants mentioned that the workshop has given them insights on 

how to investigate, prevent the crime and rescue a victim by taking advantages of 

the law. 

Participants commented that they have learnt to distinguish between a victim and 

an accused. 


The relation between police and public needs to strengthened and nurtured to 

make it a good collaboration in combating trafficking. 

“We need to concentrate on more poverty reduction programs, stopping child 

marriages, promote contraception. Then only we can get success in stopping 

human trafficking. 


One participant commented that he would concentrate on collecting as much 

information as possible through his sources. 

Another participants stated that for prevention, if he sees the same person, a 

rickshaw puller roaming around the same place day after day in a suspicious 

manner he would increase his vigilance on that person to keep a track of the 

activities. He would also watch out for any sudden increase in wealth of a person 

residing in his area. 

Problems: 

Participants shared their apprehension in maintaining their effectivity in 

combating human trafficking in cases where they would either not have the 

presence of NGOs or will not get the necessary support from them. 


Sl. 


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objective. 


100 



100 

interesting. 

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2 SLARTC 85 3 3 


4 PTC 96 3 



1 Goutam Bharari ASI Nabagram 9734-334754 

2 Gopeswar Biswas ASI Kandi 9733587190 

3 Gangaprasad Chattoraj Constable Hariharpara 973249084 

4 Soven Gupta Constable Farakka 9434183777 

5 Dipak Chanda Constable Sagar 9733847590 

6 Md. Badrudaza ASI Ranitala 9434372477 

7 Tapan Kumar Malakar Constable Bharatpur 9332528542 

8 Biswanath Biswas Constable Beldanga 264100 

9 Ratan Kumar Biswas Constable Beldanga 03481-232027 

10 Majidur Rahaman Constable Murshidabad 03482-270221 

11 Sastipada Pal Constable Raninagar 03462-259384 

12 Somnath Singha ASI Jalangi 9732756920 

13 Purabi Ghosh Lady ASI Reserve Police 9434183589 

14 Sujata Mondal Lady Constable Reserve Police 9732704211 

15 Maya Dutta Lady ASI Reserve Police 9733642955 

16 Sonali Ghosh Lady Constable LOR 9732691319 

17 Biplab Kumar Sen ASI Domkol 9732708775 

18 Bimal Das Constable Suti 9734165948 

19 Kartick Kumar ASI Samserganj 9434533134 

20 Ashim Kumar Biswas Constable Jiagunj 9474558053 

21 Sourindra Kumar Biswas Constable Islampur 9732907669 

22 Badal Chandra Mitra Constable Bhagwangola 9474789615 

23 Ashiruddin Mia ASI Lalgola 9732806635 

24 Prabir Som ASI Raghunathgunj 9732811969 

25 Probir Sarkar ASI Khargram 9474319466 

26 Lakshikanto Constable Salar 

27 Prijush Mistry ASI Berhampur 9434240020 

28 Sharmistha Ghosh Lady Constable Reserve Office 9434195632 

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District : Kolkata Workshop Dates: 27 th -28 st Sept, 2007 

Venue : Briefing Room , Lalbazar, Kolkata 


Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Nirmalya Roy, Sushanta Mukherjee, Suravi Sarkar 

Sonali Paul 

Dibyendu Hati, 

Gouri Mukherjee, Deboshree Chaterjee 


22 ASIs and 27 Constables from, Chetla, Alipore,New Alipur,Sec-WPPS (PD),DD MPS 

Gardenreach, Sec-V3, Alipore ,NPPS, IT (DO), SPPS, SD/SSD, Taratala, S P Sarani PS, 

Ekbalpore, Ballygunge ,North Port PS, West Port PS, Maidan PS, Lake PS, Bhowanipur, 

Kalighat, Gariahat, Hastings, Kareya Tollygunge Charu Market PS Police Stations 

attended the workshop. The participants had some prior experience in handling human 

trafficking cases. Rank and gender wise number of participants is detailed below. 

Total 33 16 49 

Smt. Debashree, OC IT was present in the workshop as a facilitator. 

Workshop Details, 

Day - 1 


ASI 22 00 22 



Purpose 





activity) 


At the beginning of the day the objectives of the workshop was 

shared and the participants were introduced to the resource persons. 

Though the participants had prior experience of handling cases of 

human trafficking as they have been involved in many rescue 

operations, most of them did not have knowledge on ITPA. The 

observations are listed in the table below. 





participants carried out the direction given by the facilitator. They 

were asked to raise their right hand when the facilitator says left and 

left hand when the facilitator says right. Whoever made the mistake 

or lost concentration was asked to introduce himself or herself. 

Contact Base 90




trafficking 



offenders, victims 


on CSE (ITPA, IPC ) 





They identified trafficking of women and children, domestic 

violence, eve teasing, rape and murder, child labour as the major 

crimes inflicting our society today. 

Power point presentation and participatory discussions was 

conducted for clarification of concepts. While discussing gender 

issue the participants identified very clearly about the position of 

male and female in our society and the rights of women and 

children. They also mentioned that unsafe migration and exploitation 

are the main elements of human trafficking. The traffickers are very 

clever and their networks are very powerful. The participants also 

said traffickers are more organized than police. They mentioned that 

sometimes the parents sell their child but when they do not get 

proper money then they come to police and file a missing diary. 

The participants identified routes of trafficking in West Bengal, 

reasons of trafficking etc. They further mentioned that as Kolkata 

police personnel, they duties are mostly in the city areas so they need 

to be all the more careful. Some participants shared their hunch that 

in Dharmatala many traffickers are active who mobilize people and 

after gaining their trust they execute their plans. In an activity where 

a safety net was built to protect a nine-year old girl, the participants 

identified several stakeholders like parents, relatives, neighbor, 

doctor, teacher, police, and lawyer, NGOs etc who could be of help 

in combating the menace. 

Resource persons from Kolkata Police lectured the participants on 

their role in identifying vulnerable persons, victims and traffickers in 

source, transit and destination points. The participants mentioned 

that every person from any age group could become a victim of 

human trafficking. They asked questions like, if a police person gets 

the information on a case of trafficking, can he file a GD 

immediately, and when a constable is on a beat duty and gets any 

information on a case of trafficking, can he arrest the accused or not. 

Resource person from SLARTC held a lecture based session on the 

relevant Act like ITPA, IPC and the appropriate section of those Act. 

The participants mentioned that they were not aware of the terms 

CSE and ITPA. The resource person elaborately discussed about 

CSE and the definition of brothel. Participants mentioned those 

places are called brothels where CSE takes place, it may be footpath 

also. The participants asked the facilitator about a situation where a 

woman commercial sexual worker solicits sex, under the 

circumstances could she be called an offender or accused 


about the most important part of their body for observation and 

identification of traffickers and victims, to which they all answered 

‘Eyes’. The participants then stood in a circle and exchanged their 

places keeping their eye contact intact. They realized that eye 

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Investigation 

contact is a very crucial aspect of communication which has many 

applications, whether it is used for observation or for intimidating an 


Resource person from Kolkata Police discussed about the 

intelligence collection process and proper investigation procedure. In 

this session the participants mentioned that they did not have any 

clear idea about the collection, wrapping , and labeling processes. 

Day - 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 







Theatre based activity 

on enhancing team 

coordination 




The second day started with a activity to flexible and warm up the 

participants. After that we gave a slip to each people where a 

character was written, the participants should identify the character 

as victim or accused. This activity was done to know the perceptions 

of the participant that they gathered from the previous sessions. 

The resource person from SLARTC discussed about the other 

relevant laws related with trafficking. It was observed that the 

participants had the knowledge on JJ Act. They mentioned that 

Children who are in need of care and protection should be produced 

in CWC. The participant asked whether a child who is conflict with 

law and is in JJB, becomes reached adulthood during the course of 

the trial, in such a case what needs to be done. 

Teamwork is extremely important for preventing organized crime 

like trafficking. A simple activity named ‘Over and under’ was 

carried out where two teams passed a ball; consecutively passing it 

over the head or under the legs. The participants were invigorated 

with team sprit. They commented that they realized they have to be 

honest, observant, attentive, have faith to win, energetic, cordial and 

united as they work towards stopping traffickers. 

Kolkata Police resource person discussed the proper process of 

interviewing victims and counseling. Aspects like the presence of 

lady police officials being important, if the victim refuses to give an 

interview in that case he or she can be sent to an NGO (dealing with 

the issue) for counseling were reflected upon. Some of the female 

participants present shared that they have been part of a rescue 

operation several times but at the time of interviewing they have not 

been present as no one ever called or informed them for doing so. 

The resource person iterated that it is her duty to inform the IO to 

interview the victim in the presence of a lady police official. The 

resource person also mentioned that rescue starts from brothel and 

ends on rehabilitation. So, the male police officials should control 

their curiosity and they should ensure that photographers are not 

allowed during a rescue process, otherwise the rescue should not be 

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completed. 



rescue, care of victims 

and Rehabilitation 

Prevention 

Feedback and 

Evaluation 

Trainer from Sanlap elaborated on the mental health aspect of a 

victim. The participants shared their thoughts like the victim suffers 

fear, identity crisis, suicidal tendencies, trustlessness etc. The trainer 

mentioned that the rescue of a victim is the start of a positive 

journey, they discussed elaborately that police has a very positive 

role to play because they are the ones who would probably rescue the 

girl and take necessary steps for their rehabilitation. They also 

discussed whom to contact and what to do for proper rehabilitation or 

mainstreaming the victims. The participants mentioned that one 

should try to give them some financial support otherwise they tend to 

go back to the same loop. They also commented that educational 

support is also important for the victim and one should ensure that 

she / he is not treated as an accused. 

Resource person from Kolkata Police discussed about the role of a 

police in prevention of human trafficking. The participants 

mentioned that their job is transferable, so there is no particular 

source that they can work on. 

It was observed that the participants were not aware of the intensity 

of the problem. They said they didn’t know about ITPA and CSE. 

They were amazed to know that trafficking in human beings is listed 

third in the category of crimes worldwide. Many of them also didn’t 

know that customers are also exploiters and can be punished under 

the law. 

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Pre and Post Training Evaluation: 


Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 




persons” under the law. 43 100 


therefore, a criminal. 68 94 


because they have committed no crime. 54 77 



attempt to trafficking. 39 100 


Judicial Magistrate. 43 96 


brothel room where sexual act takes place. 77 98 





parlour. 

70 97 


prostitution. 83 97 


The participants appreciated the interactive nature of the workshop in which, different 

resource persons have helped them in their understanding on the issues of human 

trafficking and the ways of combating it. They also personally interacted with the 

resource persons from different organizations asking help from them on different issues. 

Some of them commented that sometimes they face many problems, and in future if they 

face such kind of problems they will contact these organizations. They mentioned that the 

list of CWCs and short stay home is very essential for them, which they previously did 

not have. 

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Participants said that they have learned a great deal about laws to combat human 

trafficking, which were not known to them. The activities were very interesting to 

make oneself understand different aspects of trafficking and the mental trauma 

that a victim of trafficking goes through. 

According to some participants they have now detailed information about human 

trafficking, its process and ramifications. Not only as police personnel but as a 

responsible citizen it is their duty to take necessary steps to stop trafficking. 

Some of them emphasized that they would now onwards be able to distinguish 

between a victim and an offender successfully and that now they are aware of the 

various reasons and ways through which a person may become a victim of 

trafficking. 

Some said that by attending the workshop they are now better equipped to fight 

trafficking and deal with the victims. They said that they didn’t know that while 

rescuing a girl or women there must be a woman police official. And the presence 

of an NGO is also important while interviewing the victim. 


The participant said that they feel all sections of the society must unite to stop 

human trafficking and to give exemplary punishment to the offenders so that 

others involved into this heinous crime will not dare to indulge in this heinous act 

of trafficking. 

The participants said that political pressure is a big problem in their profession. 

Police cannot do any work freely. There is need to involve the political persons 

and ensure their assistance as a part of prevention of the crime. 


Many of them said that after going back to their respective areas they would 

inform the local people about trafficking, they would also discuss it with other 

police personnel who have not attained the workshop. 

The police must be very careful and sympathetic towards the victim and should 

try to create a comfort zone for the victims. 

Some of them emphasized on the fact that having good source to collect 

information about traffickers is very important. Keeping track on the suspected 

persons is also important. 

Collect evidence properly since it is an important aspect to punish the offenders. 

Some opined that the police should have good relations with the NGOs 

throughout the year so that rescue and proper rehabilitation can take place. 

Problems: 

Some said that they do many a work at a time as police personnel, so trafficking 

has to be brought into their priority of crime-prevention. 

“Mainstreaming the victims of trafficking back into the society is very important 

and it has to be done properly and for that we need special cell, which would look 

after the whole thing, which we do not have presently”. 

Lawyers should be honest otherwise it is impossible to get success at the time of 

conviction. 

Need more force and a special rescue team to prevent the organized crime. 

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Sl. 

No. 


1 Contents covered were adequate to reach the 81 19 

objective. 




interesting. 

87 13 


Sl. 

No. 



SLARTC 85 8 


PTC 85 4 2 


Sl. 

No. 


1 Sudarsan Biswas ASI Chetla 2409919 

2 Jagannath Gangapadhyay ASI Sec-K2 9433332456 

3 Dinabandhu Biswas ASI Sec-WPPS (PD) 24393617 

4 Provat Chandra Karmakar ASI New Alipur 24095100 

5 Kalipada Ghosh ASI DD MPS 9836023202 

6 

Gopal Chandra 

Debsharma Constable New Alipur 9339026170 

7 Mahadev Dutta ASI Gardenreach 9433720213 

8 Tarak Chandra Saha Constable Sec-V3 9432232503 

9 Partha Pratim Paul ASI NPPS 22832100 

10 Sankoj Bose Constable NPPS 94322700085 

11 Prabir Mondal ASI Alipore 9883115291 

12 Kishan Dey ASI Taratala 9874133823 

13 Achintya Kumar Pandit ASI Ballygunge 9432285698 

14 Jagannath Chattopadhyay ASI SPPS 9433473549 

15 Jhili Nag Lady Constable SPPS 24593226 

16 Sanaka Paptan Lady Constable SD/SSD 24593226 

17 Usha Pradhan Lady Constable SD/SSD 24097100 

18 Nirmala Ray Lady Constable S P Sarani PS 24486642 

19 Rubi Chattopadhyay Lady Constable Alipore 22812541 

20 Mita Dey Lady Constable Ekbalpore 24791021 

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21 Soma Banerjee Lady Constable North Port PS 24492135 

22 Niranjali Paul Lady Constable Gardenreach 22431183 

23 Maya Mondal Lady Constable West Port PS 24696569 

24 Sabera Khatun Lady Constable Bhowanipur 24393617 

25 Durga Saren Lady Constable Sec K1 24558092 

26 Jhuma Mondal Lady Constable WG Cell 22268321 

27 Supriya Das Lady Constable MPS DD 22145049 

28 Chaina Singha Lady Constable Maidan PS 22145053 

29 Sanatan Kumar Ghosh ASI Kalighat 22232462 

30 Bipul Dolui ASI Tollygunge 9836355898 

31 Rakib Shaikh ASI Maidan PS 9230531417 

32 Srikanta Banerjee Constable Ballygunge 9433146471 

33 Ashis Kumar Nandi ASI Charu Market PS 9433101292 

34 Tapan Kumar Mondal Constable Ballygunge 9339840214 

Ashok Kumar 

Chakraborty ASI Gariahat 9433317807 

35 

36 Kuntal Bose Constable Tollygunge 24481774 

37 Partha Pratim Das ASI Hastings 9433440083 

38 Kajal Kumar Dalai Constable Hastings 22230716 

39 Achyuta Kumar Singha ASI Lake PS 9433273994 

40 Sukhendra Nath Biswas ASI IT (DO) 9831264131 

41 Manik Mukherjee ASI Bhownipore 24344491 

42 Supriya Banerjee Constable T2 9433952609 

43 Birbahadur Giri Constable Gariahat 9433113599 

44 Biswanath Palit Constable Kareya 

45 Madhab Chandra Nandi Constable Kareya 65121223 

46 Kali Sudhan Biswas ASI DD 9231660085 

47 Mamata Ghosh Constable DD-II 

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District: Jalpaiguri Workshop Dates: 3 rd - 4 th Oct., 2007 

Venue: Conference Hall, Police line, Jalpaiguri 


Contact Base: 

PTC: 

SLARTC: 

Sanlaap: 

Nirmalya Roy, Sushanta Mukherjee, 

Samapti Banerjee,Indrani Chatterjee 

Prasenjit Chakraborty 

Sonali Pal 


12 ASIs and 37 Constables from Moynaguri, Matela, Dhupguri, Kotwali, DEB, DAP 

(H/Q), Benacheti, Bhaktinagar, Malbazar, BKN P.S., Raiganj, Nagrakat, DIB, Sadar 

Traffic, D.C.R.B., Women Cell, Sadar court police stations attended the workshop. 

Participants were found to be familiar with the issue of Human Trafficking, as some of 

them have been involved with rescue operations and raids. Rank and gender wise number 

of participants is detailed below. 


ASI 12 00 12 


Total 43 6 49 

Shri. Tripurari, IPS, SP of Jalpaiguri was present to inaugurate and give out the 

certificates to the participants. 


Day-1 

Session Name 





Description 


participants and the resource persons were then 

introduced. 

Some participants were familiar with the term ITPA 

but did not have any more knowledge of the same or 

other laws. 

Through an activity participants introduced 

themselves. The facilitator from Contact Base 

directed the participants to close their eyes and 

respond to the claps facilitated. This helped the 

participants to concentrate. After the concentration 

activity participant introduce himself or herself. 

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Clarification of concepts was carried out effectively 

with the help of group discussion. Participants 

identified That demand and supply as the main reason 

for human trafficking, If the some way demand stop 

supply could be automatically chaqued. Different 

issues like Gender discrimination of which the 

women are at the receiving end and the problem, 

which arises out of male- female discrimination, were 

discussed. Child and Women’s Right and their 

vulnerable conditions which make them easy targets 

of trafficking were also discussed. Concepts like 

missing persons can also be trafficked, the different 

routes/channels of trafficking, what for trafficking is 

being done, what are the push and pull factors behind 

trafficking were also clarified. Participants said that 

new dimension of Human trafficking that was 

unknown to them is clarified. They also mentioned 

that their district work as source and transit point. 

Because Nepal border and Bhutan border is very near 

from their district. They said that their district is 

became vulnerable for the reason of collapsed of tea 

garden. During this session Addl. SP Shri Tapas Kr. 

Das informs the participants number of cases in 

which rescue have been done last year. 

PTC trainer held an interactive session on issues like 

‘any one can become a victim of trafficker and get 

trafficked’, and ‘a trafficker can be from anywhere or 

anyone around us’, ‘he/she can be a known or an 

unknown person whom we see in life daily’, but that 

‘a trafficker will be a person who is familiar with the 

people of that area/locality’. Participant mentioned 

that they collect information from the different types 

of sources who are identified by the police person. 

They also mentioned that one victim should be a 

good source because they know the real picture of the 

place of offence. They agreed that police should 

maintain a good communication with the local 

panchayat, villager and the worker of tea garden also. 

The facilitator of SLARTC lectured about the 

relevant sections of IPC and ITPA. Before the session 

on law some of the participants had the 

misconception that prostitution itself is a crime. But 

after the discussion their perception changed. They 

mentioned that some times they implement the 

section of IPC against a kidnapping case but in some 

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Activity for improving observation 

and communication skills 

specific cases they can use ITPA also. 

Resource person from Contact Base discussed about 

the importance of communication skill and how they 

can improve their communication with the victim. 

The participant mentioned that observation skill is 

very essential to communicate. A simple activity was 

by the participant where the facilitator directed one of 

the participants to go out of the room. In the mean 

time all the participants were asked to choose a leader 

among them. The leader does an activity and all the 

others follow the same. The person who was sent out 

of the room is then called in and asked step in the 

middle of the circle and identify the leader. After this 

activity, participants commented on their realization 

that observation skill and leadership quality is very 

important in their profession. 

Day- 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 



Officers in 











The second day started with a warm up activity and Physical 

exercise. Then the participants to recall the previous day and each of 

them told that what they learn new on previous session. 


were not aware of proper procedures to collect and preserve the 

evidences. They were sensitized on why wrapping evidence in cotton 

was incorrect. Participants said that they learned many things from 

this session especially the wrapping, labeling and collection of 

evidence. The facilitator also discussed about the essentiality of 

collecting hair and blood samples in cases related to trafficking. 

Police rescue the victims. But the victim usually till the point of 

rescue has already gone through a lot of vulnerability and 

exploitation. And there is a huge impact of all this on their mental 

health. For that reason the victim at times tell lie, he/ she suffer an 

identity crisis, fear, mistrust etc. Facilitator of Sanlaap elaborately 

discussed the mental health of a victim and what is the role of police 

and especially lady police with the participants. The facilitator also 

discussed about the Shelter Homes, Short stay Home, and shared 

their real experiences. They participant mentioned that before the 

session they never thought about the victim’s mental health and so 

they were unable to give a proper rehabilitation of the victim. 




concepts on relevant laws. Participants were sensitized on proper 

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Prevention 


procedure for repatriation instead of “push back”. The participants 

mentioned that they are habituated to the push back system, but 

observed that the process of push back is very exploitative. Jalpaiguri 

being a district which shares its border with Bangladesh it is all the 

more important to change the system of push back for the survival of 

the Bangladeshi victim. They also mention after closing the tea 

garden children are going out of the district to earn for their family. 

After some days their parents fails a missing dairy so the police 

should verify the situation of the victim and should implement 

Bonded Labourer Act, JJ act or Child labour Act along with the 

ITPA. 

PTC resource persons held a lecture-based session. Some 

participants commented that the lady police officials are not aware of 

their role in the time of rescue. Some of the female participants 

mentioned that IOs interviewed the victim in the presence of the lady 

police. They mentioned the lack of infrastructure is the main problem 

in their profession. The participants queried about sction to be taken 

in case of unavailability of lady police at the PS during rescue and 

post rescue operations. 




The participants mentioned that more efforts needs to be made to 


attempt to spread awareness about traffickers and victims among 

their colleagues should be made. They assessed that it is important to 

keep in touch with the local Panchayat, NGOs, Clubs, Schools and 

people of their area. They commented that they need more help and 

information from the general people. 



Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





53 88 



58 86 



67 88 




60 88 

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parlour. 


prostitution. 

51 70 

79 93 

60 95 

79 88 



• They understood that trafficking is a organized crime and they got to know about 

ITPA. 

• They learnt how trafficking happens, how human rights are violated and what a police 

person can do to stop this. 

• They got to know about the different aspects of human trafficking. 

• They mentioned that they got to know about the different laws and sections pertaining 

to trafficking in women, men and children. 

• They learnt how to interact with the victim. 

• They were not aware of the magnitude of the problem. Now they want to help in 

raising awareness among the common people on the issue. 


• They felt that they should involve people from different walks of life to fight this 

menace. 

• Teamwork is very important to fight this problem. 

• We can do a lot with the help of NGOs and collect information from localities. 

• By giving exemplary punishment to traffickers a message can be sent out against this 

crime. 


• They will use the things learnt in the workshop to combat trafficking. 

• They will interact with the victims from a humane point of view. 

• They will share with their colleagues what they learn from the workshop. 

• They will work with different NGOs. 

• If they get any information of trafficking they will inform their higher authority as 

early as possible. 

• They will use their knowledge and presence of mind to help people. 

• When a case of trafficking comes they said that they would treat the victim as if he or 

she is a family member. 

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Problems: 




95 

objective. 




interesting. 


Sl. 

No. 



2 SLARTC 86 14 


4 PTC 86 9 


Sl.No Name Designation Posted at Phone 

1 Tarak Chanda Constable - 804 Moynaguri P.S. 9832347019 

2 Barendra Nath Roy Constable - 614 Moynaguri P.S. 9734185651 

3 Birendra Singh Negi ASI Moynaguri P.S. 9434207790 

4 Prafulla Roy Pramanik ASI Matela PS 9434500310 

5 Sarada Prasad Barman Constable 1490 Dhupguri PS 9474626749 

6 Rabindranath Roy Constable 508 Dhupguri PS 

7 Sanjay Pradhan ASI Kotwali PS 9434716630 

8 Neodup Gyatsa ASI Kotwali PS 9733045229 

9 Harka Boh Chhetri Constable - 1410 D.E.B Jalpaiguri 9474625669 

10 Dhananajoy Sen Constable - 509 Kotwali PS 9933449087 

11 Raj Karki Constable D.A.P. (H/Q) Jalpaiguri 9434340975 

12 Ravi Lepcha Constable D.A.P.Jalpaiguri 9933881094 

13 Kartik Dutta Constable D.A.P. 9832313588 

14 Dilip Kumar Sarkar ASI Kotwali PS 9832486419 

15 Biswajit Saha Constable D.A.P. Jalpaiguri 9474102657 

16 Arun Sarkar Constable - 257 D.A.P. Jalpaiguri 9932807914 

17 Asit Bose Constable - C/1038 D.A.P Jalpaiguri 9434491662 

18 Himangshu Bhattacharjee ASI-389 Benacheti PS 9434815263 

19 Ganesh Chandra Roy Constable - 1220 Benacheti PS 

20 Pradip Kr Roy Constable - 770 D.A.P 9434034198 

21 Gopal Thapa Constable D.A.P. 03561-227179 

22 Smriti Kaur Barman Lady Constable - 1380 Kotwali PS 9474013340 

95 

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23 Soma Dev Singha Lady Constable - 142 Kotwali PS 9832438669 

24 Rampal Robidas Constable-362 Kotwali PS 9474431209 

25 Malay Kr Roy Constable - 590 Raiganj PS 9832501067 

26 Mintu Sarkar Constable-786 D.A.P. Jalpaiguri 9434490046 

27 Bablu Bose Constable - 1598 D.A.P. Jalpaiguri 9474628928 

28 Lalit Chandra Pramanik ASI D.E.B Jalpaiguri 9434442886 

29 Dinesh Chandra Roy Constable - 1263 Bhakti Nagar PS 9434608904 

30 Hari Nandan Das ASI Mal PS 9733065405 

31 Birman Lepcha Constable - 635 BKN PS 

32 Naresh Chandra Roy Constable - 768 Mal PS 

33 Sushanta Kr Barman ASI Raiganj PS 9932375197 

34 Krishna Sherpa Constable - 690 Nagrakat PS 9474626063 

35 Khagendra Nath Barman ASI D.I.B (S) Jalpaiguri 9434367733 

36 Naresh Bhowmick Constable 9832486418 

37 Ishat Roy Constable Sadar Traffic 

38 Anup Sarkar Constable - 1175 Sadar Traffic 

39 Uttam Kr Baishya ASI Nagrakat PS 9434600157 

40 Pratima Chhetri Lady Constable D.C.R.B. 9933672173 

41 Promila Roy Lady Constable Women Cell 9832314079 

42 Ashit Chandra Sarkar Constable Malbazar 9832517955 

43 Lalit Chandra Pramanik ASI DEB 943442886 

44 Narendranath Ray Constable Sadar Court 

45 Sangita Nag Lady Constable DCRB 9832421816 

46 Purnima Adhikari Lady Constable DCRB 

47 Suresh Thapa Constable Mal PS 

48 Ganendranath Roy Constable D.E.B Jalpaiguri 

49 Narayan Deb Adhikari Constable DIB Jalpaiguri 

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District: Paschim Medinipur Workshop Dates: 5 th -6 th Oct., 2007 

Venue: DIB Conference Hall, Paschim Medinipur 


Contact Base: Swarnendu sarkar, Abhijit Ghose, Suravi Sarkar 

PTC: Biswajit Ghosh Hazra, Subhasis Bhattacharya 


Sanlaap: Rituparna Chatterjee. 

Participants Profile: 

6 ASIs and 19 Constables from Chandrokona, Sankrail, Beliabara, Jhargram, Keshpur, 

Kotwali, Khirpai, T.P.O., Reserve Ofiice, Gopiballavpur, Garhbeta, Ramjibanpur T.P.O., 

Line O/R attended the workshop. Rank and Gender wise number of participants are given 

below. 


ASI 06 00 06 


Total 20 05 25 

Shri K.P. Barui, DSP (Operation), was present in the workshop for inauguration. 


Day-1 



Description 

Introduction and workshop objective sharing 

Pre Training Evaluation 



Most of the participants were not aware of ITPA. 

Even though they were aware of child and women 

trafficking, they were not aware of the multiple 

aspects of Human Trafficking. Some had the 

misconception that prostitution and trafficking are 

the same. 

Through an activity where participants introduced 

themselves, facilitator along with introductions 

also did the ice breaking with them to create an 

enabling environment. The facilitator explained the 

rules of the activity that on his one clap, the 

participants should move around the room and 

when he gave two claps, they should stop 

immediately, anyone making a mistake in carrying 

out the instruction would be considered out of the 

game. Before stepping out of the game, the 

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participant would have to say his or her name aloud 

to the rest of the people. 





offenders, victims of trafficking, 

collecting intelligences 

Laws and procedures on CSE 

(IPC, ITPA) 

Participants did a mapping of the primary crimes of 

their area and prioritized Child & Women 

trafficking, violence against women, murder, 

terrorism, Rape & murder, drug peddling etc. 

According to the participants, gender issue is a big 

problem of our society and is a cause behind the 

vulnerability of women and children. They also 

mentioned migration for job as one of the main 

mode of human trafficking in their district. They 

shared that the traffickers promise jobs to the needy 

and after winning his trust, they start exploiting the 

person. They were of the opinion that trafficking is 

also possible within the same room where there is a 

change of environment from safe to unsafe. The 

participants identified CSE as the main purpose of 

human trafficking. The route of trafficking and the 

vulnerable position of India and in particular West 

Bengal was shared through a presentation. They 

identified their district as a source and transit point. 

They mentioned Khragapur railway station as a big 

transit point of India. They also mentioned that 

police could not prevent the organized crime alone. 

The facilitator then made a Safety Net with the 

participants where the participants identified the 

other stakeholders of the society like family, 

neighbours, doctor, teachers, NGOs, police, 

lawyers etc. to prevent the organized crime. 

PTC resource person held an elaborate discussion 

on traffickers, victims and offenders. The 

participants mentioned that any one can be 

trafficked and anyone can be a trafficker. 

Resource person from SLARTC held a discussion 

on the relevant laws and sections related with CSE 

like ITPA and IPC. The participants mentioned that 

any place where CSE is taking place could be a 

brothel. They said that ITPA is more effective than 

IPC in human trafficking cases because in ITPA 

they get more elaborate conception and sections to 

prevent the organized crime. 

PTC trainer held an interactive session where the 

participants agreed that they do not get proper 

information at the right time to prevent the crime. 

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Investigation, Chain of evidence 

and evidence transfer 

They mentioned that the information comes 

through parents after the exploitation of the victim. 

So to stop the organized crime police needs think 

of some alternate way. The role of supporting 

officials at the time of rescue was also discussed in 

detail. The participants also mentioned that they do 

not have any training on collection and transfer of 

evidence. They appreciated the session as very 

important for every police person because 

evidences help the main conviction process. 

Day-2 


Warm Up & Recapitulation 


exploitative labour, Organ 

transplantation, F-Act, JJ Act 

Activity on communication skill 

Legal and administrative 

processes in rescue and post 

rescue care of victim 

Description 

The day started with a quick recapitulation of the last 

day’s sessions. 

SLARTC discussed the minor laws and procedures 

related with human trafficking. It was noticed that 

participants have knowledge of CWC and JJB. The 

enquired about whether they have the power to 

produce the victim to the CWC or not. 

Through an activity, Contact Base facilitator tried to 

make participants realize the importance of good 

observation. The participants also identified 

observation skill as a skill that is very important in 

their profession. In the activity, one of the 

participants from the group was made the ‘leader’ 

and another person who was not made aware of the 

person appointed the ‘leader’ was given the job of 

identifying the leader influencing the change of 

action of the rest of the team members. The 

participants enjoyed the activity and mentioned that 

observation, teamwork, alertness and leadership 

quality is very important for them not only during 

rescue but also for understand the victim’s mental 

situation. 

Resource person from PTC held a session on the 

proper rescue process and the responsibility of police 

after the rescue. Participants shared that they are 

aware that presence of woman police is a must in 

rescue team but, many a times it is not possible to 

adhere to these rules as there is an acute shortage of 

female staff in police, particularly so in the districts. 

They further shared that the NGOs can help them 

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Mental health issues and “best 

interest of survivor” 


Activity on verbal and non verbal 

communication 

was hitherto unknown to them. The participants also 

mentioned that first they should make a GD where 

they should inform every condition and barriers that 

they faced at that moment. 

Resource person from Sanlaap started the session by 

narrating a case study of a trafficked victim. The 

participants mentioned various mental status of the 

victim like fear, suicidal, trustless, violent, shyness 

etc. The resource person elaborated on the mental 

health of a victim and what is the role of police in 

overcoming the situation. The participants 

mentioned that the victim mostly mistrust any male 

person so they never trust police so easily. So first, 

they need to gain the trust of the victim but, this 

process will vary from case to case. Women 

participant said, in future they will play active role in 

creating a relaxed atmosphere for the victim at the 

police station after rescue. 

Sanlaap conducted participatory discussion on 

proper rehabilitation process. Participants mentioned 

that police and society at large have a responsibility 

to inform child victims about their rights. They also 

mentioned that they need some alternative economic 

support to improve the victim’s life style and proper 

rehabilitation is possible if we provide them with all 

type of medical, social, and economic support. They 

were of the opinion that after family identification it 

is very important to motivate the parents of the 

victim and ensure that there is no chance to 

retafficking. According to them family support is 

vital for a child and minor girls. 

Contact Base facilitator briefly discussed about the 

difference between verbal and non-verbal 

communication and, why it is important to gain the 

trust of a victim. Participants mentioned that police 

needs to listen to information properly and speak 

clearly when they pass the information to their 

higher authority. Through an activity, the 

participants tried to understand the process of correct 

listening of a message and whether they can pass on 

the same correctly. 

Group discussion was held where the participants 

were divided in two groups and they discussed on 

topics like ‘what should be role of police’ and ‘what 

should be the role of society’ in preventing human 

trafficking. Group A pointed at multiple roles of 

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Group Discussion and Action 

Plan 

Prevention 

police. They mentioned, police should identify 

source and should communicate with the villagers to 

collect information. They should increase vigilance 

at the check posts and ferry ghats, may be raid 

hotels, resorts and communicate with the owners of 

the hotels and resorts. They also mentioned that they 

should make resource groups at village level. They 

were of the opinion that they should use the recorded 

criminals as intelligence. According to them during 

the time of night patrolling they should interrogate 

any suspected person and if needed, inform the 

police station and NGOs, enquire about the 

newcomers in a village, and sensitize people on 

human trafficking . 

According to participants of Group B, Gram 

Panchayat should be involved in prevention of 

human trafficking and they need to make watch dog 

committees at the village level, raise the awareness 

level of people on human trafficking through mass 

communication. Vulnerable groups need to be 

identified and made aware and linkages between 

police and community-based organizations need to 

be strengthened. They further iterated that they need 

to play a vital role in ensuring rehabilitation of 

victims. 

The resource person from SLARTC briefed the 

participants about the legal aspects of prevention. 

The participants mentioned that usually, after 

submission of charge sheet, they do not maintain any 

contact with the witness of the case and on reflection 

they understand that this affects the case at the time 

of conviction. 

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Pre and Post Training Evaluation Form 


Sl No. Statement Pre- 

Workshop 

Post- 

Workshop 




69 92 



62 96 



79 96 




62 92 



59 92 



83 96 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

69 96 



• One of the participant mentioned having learned that by using ITPA and specific 

sections of IPC, an accused can be put behind bars for a longer time. 

• According to participants, they learnt the proper procedure of rescue and post rescue. 

• Participants felt they got information on the legal aspects of prevention of this 

organized crime after rescue. 

• NGOs, Panchayats and local people can help the police in preventing the crime. 

• Participants were of the opinion that the traffickers have a good network, which 

makes it all the more important for everybody in the society to be aware and alert. 


• They mentioned that linkage with community is very important to prevent the crime. 

• If they got any kind of information, they will pass the information to the higher 

authority as early as possible. 

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• According to the participants, people need to be made more aware about the crime 

and police needs to identify the vulnerable communities in their area. 

• Mass awareness should be generated around the issue using different medium of 

communication. 

• Society at large needs to be made aware of their responsibilities towards the needs of 

a victim for rehabilitation and we as police have an important role to play for the 

same. Particularly so because the rescued survivors need the socio-economic support 

from the society. 


• They will form committees at the village level and make people aware of these 

problems. The committee will keep an eye on outsiders who come to the village. 

• We will shear the information that we got from the workshop with their colleagues 

and family. 

• Participant share their opinion that as a police person they can implement the laws 

against the accused to give them longer punishment and rehabilitate the victim. 

• Lady police can win the trust of the victim if they are involved at the time of rescue. 

Problems: 

• If we are not able to get the common people involved in this movement against 

trafficking, it will be difficult to address the problem. 

• If local clubs and the Panchayats do not cooperate, it will be difficult to move ahead. 

• Illiteracy, poverty, superstitions would hinder the work on anti human trafficking. 




objective. 

92 8 




interesting. 

92 8 


Sl. 

No. 



2 SLARTC 72 28 


4 PTC 52 48 

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List of participants: 

Sl. No. Name 

Designation 

at 

Posted at 

1 Provat Mukherjee ASI Beliabara 

2 Tapan Kumar Mandal ASI Chandrakona Road 

3 Amalendu Mukherjee ASI Sankrail 

4 Nemai Chandra Dolui Constable Khirpai T.O.P, 

5 Sankar Mahato Constable Beliabara 

6 Sahadeb Marandi Constable Sankrail 

7 Hikim Mandi Constable Sankrail 

8 Malina Paira lady Constable Jhargram 

9 Arati Sahoo lady Constable Reserve Office 

10 Santi Nath Roy ASI Reserve Office 

11 Lakshmikanta Chakraborty Constable Kesh Pur 

12 Maya Chakraborty lady Constable Kotwali 

13 Mitali Sahoo lady Constable Line O/R 

14 Monoranjan Bag Constable Gopiballav Pur 

15 Kalyan Patra Constable Garhbeta 

16 Rampada Mahato Constable Garhbeta 

17 Dharanidhar Roy Constable Jhargram 

18 Krishnakali Sarkar Constable Chandrakona Town T.O.P 

19 Sovaranjan Karani Constable Jhargram T.O.P 

20 Chandra Nath Acharya ASI Jhargram T.O.P 

21 Siddheswar Mandal ASI Chandrakona Road 

22 Madhusudan Ojha Constable Gopiballav Pur 

23 Ramkrishna Chakraborty Constable Kotwali 

24 Joydev Dey Constable Chandrakona Town 

25 Minati Baskey Lady Constable Chandrakona Town 

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District: Jalpaiguri Workshop Dates: 10 th - 11 th Oct., 2007 

Venue: Conference Hall, Circuit House, Alipurduar 


Contact Base: 

PTC: 

SLARTC: 

Sanlaap: 

Nirmalya Roy, Sushanta Mukherjee, 


Dibyendu Hati 

Souvik Basu 


9 ASIs and 21 Constables from Alipurduar, Jaigaon, Kalchini, Madarihat, DIB, Hatipota, 

Falakata, Court, Samuktala, Suti Police Stations attended the workshop. It was observed 

that the participants were not much familiar with the issue of Human Trafficking, 

although some of them have been involved in rescue operations and raids. Rank and 



ASI 09 00 09 


Total 29 01 31 

Shri. Tripurari, IPS, SP Jalpaiguri was present during the workshop. Shri Shyam Kr. 

Damal, DSP (DEB) was present to inaugurate and Shri K.B. Dorjee ASP, Alipurduar 

gave the certificates to the participants at the end of the workshops. 


Day-1 








participants and the resource persons were then 

introduced. 

It was observed that only a few participants were 

familiar with the term ITPA. Aspects like trafficking 

could happen in terms of change of environment were 

new concepts to the participants. 

A theatre based activity was carried out which served 

the dual purpose of creating a relaxed and interesting 

learning process through which the participants 

introduced themselves. The facilitator from Contact 

Base directed the participants to close their eyes and 

respond to the claps. This helped the participants to 

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concentrate. After the concentration activity 

participant introduce himself or herself. 




Trainer from Contact Base held the session on 

clarifying concepts of human trafficking effectively 

with the help of group discussion. Different issues 

like Gender discrimination of which the women are at 

the receiving end and the problem, which arises out 

of male- female discrimination, were discussed. 

Children’s and Women’s Right and their vulnerable 

conditions which make them easy targets of 

trafficking were also discussed. Concepts like 

missing persons could also have been trafficked, the 

different routes/channels of trafficking, what for 

trafficking is being done, what are the push and pull 

factors behind trafficking were also clarified. 

Participants said that new dimension of Human 

trafficking that was unknown to them has been 

clarified. They also mentioned that their district is 

both a source and transit point of human trafficking. 

Owing to the fact that the district shares international 

border with Bhutan, many girls are trafficked through 

this route. They sited the closure of tea gardens which 

has led to an economic crisis as an important factor 

behind making their district vulnerable towards 

trafficking. 

PTC trainer held an interactive session on issues like 

‘any one can become a victim of trafficker and get 

trafficked’, and ‘a trafficker can be from anywhere or 

anyone around us’, ‘he/she can be a known or an 

unknown person whom we see in life daily’, but that 

‘a trafficker will be a person who is familiar with the 

people of that area/locality’. Participants mentioned 

that they collect information from different types of 

sources who are identified by the police person. They 

also mentioned that a victim could be a good source 

of information as they know the real picture of the 

place of offence. They agreed that police should 

maintain close relations with the local panchayats, 

villager and the workers of tea garden. They also 

mentioned that they can identify the vulnerable child 

with the help of school teachers in the vulnerable 

areas. 

Trainer from SLARTC held a lecture based session 

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Theatre based activity on 

improving Observation and 

Communication Skills 

on the relevant sections of IPC and ITPA. It was 

observed that prior to the session, the participants did 

not have any idea about CSE. But after the discussion 

their perception were corrected. They mentioned that 

some times they implement the section of IPC but in 

future they will use the section of ITPA also. 

Resource person from Contact Base discussed about 

the importance of communication skilsl and how they 

can improve their communication with the victim. 

The participant mentioned that observation skill is 

very essential to communicate. A simple activity was 

carried out by the participant where the facilitator 

directed one of the participants to go out of the room. 

In the mean time all the participants were asked to 

choose a leader among them. The leader was to do an 

action and all the others were to follow the same. The 

person who was sent out of the room was then called 

in and asked to identify the leader. After the activity, 

participants commented on their realization that 

observation skills and leadership qualities are very 

important in their profession. 

Day- 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 

Recapitulation 


Officers in 




The second day started with a warm up activity and physical 

exercise. Then the participants were asked to recall the previous 

day’s sessions. Each of the participants shared what new thing they 

learn’t from the previous day’s sessions. 

PTC trainer held a lecture-based session. The participants were not 

aware of proper procedures of collecting and preserving the 

evidences. They were sensitized on why wrapping evidence in cotton 

was incorrect. Participants particularly appreciated the knowledge 

gained on the wrapping, labeling and collection of evidence. The 

facilitator also discussed the essentiality of collecting hair and blood 

samples in cases related to trafficking. The participants emphasized 

the need for having a forensic laboratory set up in North Bengal to 

achieve better conviction rate. 

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Mental Health, Rescue 

and Post Rescue Care 

of victims 



Labour, Organ 





victims and Counseling 

Prevention 


Police rescue the victims. But by the time of rescue, the victim 

usually has already gone through a lot of vulnerability and 

exploitation. And there is a huge impact of all this on their mental 

health. For that reason the victim at times tell lies, suffer an identity 

crisis, fear, mistrust etc. Facilitator from Sanlaap elaborately 

discussed the mental health of a victim and what is the role of police 

and especially lady police officials with the participants. The 

facilitator also discussed about the Shelter Homes, Short stay Homes, 

and shared their own experiences. The participants mentioned that 

before the session they never thought about the victim’s mental 

health and so they were unable to give proper rehabilitation to the 

victim. 




concepts on relevant laws. Participants were sensitized on proper 

procedure for repatriation instead of “push back”. The participants 

mentioned that they are habituated to the push back system, but 

observed that the process of push back is very exploitative. Jalpaiguri 

being a district which shares its border with Bangladesh and Bhutan, 

it is all the more important to change the system of push back for the 

survival of the victims. They also mentioned that after the closure of 

the tea gardens of the district, children are sent out of the district to 

earn for their family. Sometimes after loosing track of their child the 

parents file a missing diary so police should verify the situation of 

the victim and should implement Bonded Labour Act, JJ Act or 

Child labour Act along with the ITPA as may be applicable. Prior to 

the session the participants didn’t have idea that a victim should not 

be convicted on 14 foreigners act. They realized that victim should 

not be victimized all over again by in the process of implementing 

this Act. 

Trainer from PTC held a lecture-based session. Some participants 

commented that the lady police officials are not aware of their role at 

the time of rescue. Some of the female participants mentioned that 

IOs interviewed the victim in the presence of a female police official. 

They mentioned the lack of infrastructure as the main problem in 

their profession. The participants asked the trainer about the steps to 

be taken in case of unavailability of female police official at the PS 

during rescue and post rescue operations. 

SLARTC trainers gave a presentation on networking between police, 


evidence in ensuring prosecution to prevent trafficking. 

The participants mentioned that more efforts need to be made to 


attempt to spread awareness about traffickers and victims among 

their colleagues should be made. They iterated that it is important to 

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keep in touch with the local Panchayats, NGOs, Clubs, Schools and 

people of their area. They commented that they need more help and 

information from the general people. They also mentioned that 

proper awareness generation campaign should be run in the 

vulnerable areas. 



Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





31 72 



37 76 



51 83 




24 79 



31 86 



72 83 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

68 83 



• Participants got their perception clear regarding sending a minor victim to CWC post 

rescue. 

• Participants mentioned that they got to know about the different laws and sections 

pertaining to human trafficking. 

• Participants commented that they would like to take an active role in helping the 

victims to get back to the main stream of society. 

• Participants shared that they learnt how to interact with the victim by using various 


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• Participants commented that they were not aware of the magnitude of the problem. 

Now they want to help in raising awareness among the common people on the issue. 


• People need to be made aware of the ramifications of human trafficking. 


• They will share with their colleagues what they learn from the workshop. 



• They said that they should keep their eyes and ears open and be alert. 

• We can do a lot with the help of NGOs and local people and collect information from 

localities 

Problems: 

• Participants sited lack of infrastructure and manpower as deterrents in achieving the 

results that they may seek. 


Sl. 

No. 



objective. 

89 




interesting. 

89 


Sl. 

No. 



2 SLARTC 82 


4 PTC 82 

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Sl.No Name Designation Posted at 

1 Rajesh Khati ASI APD Court 

2 Arati Brahma L/C -931 APD P.S 

3 Mangal Singh ASI Suit PS 

4 Swadesh Saha ASI JGN P.S 

5 Ranjit Kr Barman ASI C.I.Office KCN 

6 Niren Roy ASI APD P.S. 

7 Sudhir Kr Barman ASI DEB Alipurduar 

8 Bijoy Kr Roy Constable DEB Alipurduar 

9 Chironjoy Pandit Constable R.O. Office APD 

10 Bijendra Roy Constable Samuktala PS 

11 Kulendranath Roy Constable Jaigaon PS 

12 Sambhunath Bhagat Constable Hatipota O.P 

13 Ganga Prasad Barman Constable APD Court 

14 Sudipta Ghosh Constable Kalchini PS 

15 Jogesh Adhikary ASI Kalchini PS 

16 Shyamal Das Constable Hatipota O.P 

17 Khagendra Nath Adhikary W/C 1067 D.I.B APD 

18 Swadesh Nandi Constable Samuktala PS 

19 Palen Barman Constable Madari PS 

20 Deepak Rai ASI Madharihat PS 

21 Budhi Man Gurang Constable Madharihat PS 

22 Baidya Nath Basak ASI Kalchini PS 

23 Samir Banerjee Constable HNM PS 

24 Dulal Sarkar W/C 701 A.P.D DIB 

25 Ananta Barman Constable Joigaon P.S. 

26 Hiralal Ray Constable F.K.T. PS 

27 Shiben Das Constable APD P.S. 

28 Bikash Datta Constable B.P.PS 

29 Dayal Ishole Constable APD Court 

30 Madhusudan Karmakar W/C 355 APD DEB 

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District: Paschim Medinipur Workshop Dates: 12 th -13 th Oct., 2007 

Venue: DIB Conference Hall, Paschim Medinipur 


Contact Base : Swarnendu sarkar, Abhijit Ghose, Suravi Sarkar 

PTC : Biswajit Ghosh Hazra, Subhasis Bhattacharya 

SLARTC : Prosenjeet Chakrabarty 

Sanlaap : Sanchita Mitra 


11 ASIs and 25 Constables from Chandrokona, Ghatal, Beliabara, Jhargram, Kotwali, 

Kharagpur, Nimpura, Belda, Binpur, Daspur, Sabang, Debra, Keshiary, Nayagram, 

Pingla, Garbeta, Ramjibanpur attended the workshop. Rank and gender wise number of 

participants are given below. 


ASI 10 01 11 


Total 29 07 36 


Day-1 

Session Name 



Getting to know each other (Ice 

Breaker) 

Description 


participants and the resource persons were 

introduced. 

Though the participants were somewhat aware of the 

issues of child and women trafficking, they did not 

have a clear conception of the gamut of Human 

Trafficking as an issue. Most of the participants 

didn’t have the knowledge of ITPA. Some of them 

were found to be having the misconception of 

prostitution and human trafficking being the same. 

An activity was taken up for ice-breaking with the 

participants. Participants got introduced to each other 

during this activity. Facilitator instructed that if he 

gave one clap the participants should move around 

the room, when he gave two claps they should stop 

immediately and when he gave three claps they have 

sit down. Participant who would make a mistake in 

carrying out the instruction of the facilitator would 

have to say his or her name to all others and be out of 

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the activity. 



Clarifying of concept 


offenders, victims of trafficking, 

collecting intelligences 

Participants identified Child & Women trafficking, 

violence against women, murder, terrorism, Rape & 

murder, drug peddling etc as the primary crimes. 

The participants mentioned that trafficking of women 

and children is a big problem in their district. They 

identified poverty and gender bias as the main causes 

of vulnerability to human trafficking. They 

mentioned that in their district migration for job 

purpose is the main cause of human trafficking. They 

also mentioned that it is very difficult to identify and 

differentiate between cases of migration and 

trafficking. They informed there are many people in 

the Keshpur, Daspur and Khragapur area who came 

from other states of India. They sometimes take away 

men and women of the area for jobs. In general, 

people do not inform others before they leave, even 

Panchayats do not have any information about those 

migrant people. Participants mentioned that 

trafficking is also possible within the same room 

where the circumstances change from safe custody to 

unsafe custody. The participant said CSE is the main 

purpose of human trafficking.The police said that, 

they have information that young people are forced to 

take up terrorist activities. Through a PowerPoint 

presentation they understood the route of trafficking 

and the vulnerable position of India, and West Bengal 

in particular. They also identified their district as a 

source and transit point. They mentioned that 

Kharagpur railway station is a big transit point of 

India. The participants mentioned that police alone 

cannot prevent this organized crime. Our facilitator 

made a Safety Net with the the participants where the 

participants identified the other stakeholders of the 

society like family, neighbours, doctors, teachers, 

NGOs, Police, lawyers, community based 

organisation etc. in preventing the organised crime. 

The resource person of PTC elaborately discussed 

about the traffickers, victims and offenders. The 

participants mentioned that any one can be trafficked 

and anyone can be a trafficker. They also mentioned 

that in maximum cases a victim is trafficked by his or 

her very close person, even parents. The participants 

mentioned that they can use source to identify the 

vulnerable areas and they can make a criminal list 

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who were involved in this type of cases previously. 

They mentioned that intelligence collection is very 

important to prevent human trafficking. 

Laws and procedures on CSE 

(IPC, ITPA) 

Activity on verbal and non verbal 

communication skill 

Resource person from SLARTC discussed the 

relevant laws and sections related with CSE like 

ITPA and IPC. Many of the participants were of the 

idea that a customer is not an accused because they 

did not know that there are laws against abusers. 

After the discussion on ITPA they realised that a 

customer or any other abuser is also an accused. In 

case of an attempt to traffick earlier they used only 

section 511 IPC, but now they can use the relevant 

sections from ITPA. 

The session began with a discussion on verbal and 

non-verbal communication. The definitions were 

touched upon. For what and why we need to 

understand verbal and non-verbal communication 

was also discussed. An activity on verbal and nonverbal 

communication was taken up where one of the 

participant show a body language and expression and 

another of them would show some other body 

language and expression which would counter the 

first participant. After a while another person would 

come in place of the first participant with another 

body language and expression to counter the second 

person. This activity went on for a while. The 

participants mentioned that through the activity they 

could understand the essentiality of non-verbal 

communication in their profession. They also 

mentioned that if they practice the skills of nonverbal 

communication, they can behave better with 

the public. 

Day-2 

Warm up & recap 


exploitative labour, Organ 

transplantation, F-Act, JJ Act 

The second day started with a fitness exercise. After 

the activity the participants shared their experiences 

of the previous days sessions. 

The resource persons of SLARTC discussed the 

minor laws and procedures related with human 

trafficking. It was noticed that participants have 

knowledge of CWC and JJB. But some times they 

do not understand what is the role of police when the 

children are exploited by their own family. They 

queried that whether they have the power to produce 

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Investigation and Legal and 

administrative processes in rescue 

and post rescue care of victim 

Mental health issues and “Best 

Interest of Survivor” and 


the victim to the CWC or not. They wanted to know 

whether the advertisements asking for organ 

donation are legal. 

Resource person from PTC conducted a session on 

the proper investigation procedure. The participants 

mentioned that they did not have any clear idea 

about investigation because they do not have the 

power to investigate. The facilitator discussed the 

role of SOs at the time of investigation. During the 

session the participants said that due to improper 

procedure of collecting and preservation of 

evidences, it becomes difficult to prove a case at the 

time of conviction. The participants enquired that, 

suppose a woman is trafficked to a brothel, in the 

course of time she becomes pregnant and undergoes 

an abortion, the doctor says she can not work for five 

or six months. Under these circumstances she 

trafficks some one else to take care of her needs. 

Now during a rescue process she comes in contact 

with the police as an accused because of her 

activities. Now will the police treat her as an accused 

or a victim 

Resource person of Sanlaap held discussion on the 

issue mental health and the proper rehabilitation 

process. The Participants mentioned various mental 

status of the victim like fear, suicidal, trustless, 

violent, shyness etc. The participants mentioned that 

rescue starts from the brothel and it ends in 

rehabilitation. But in maximum cases the society 

does not accept the victim easily, so he or she always 

lives as a victim. They also mention that shelter 

home is not a solution. The victim needs some socioeconomic 

support to return to mainstream. In this 

session they also mentioned that when they 

interview the victim they should apply the method of 

non-verbal communication to earn their trust and can 

ensure their basic human rights. They emphasised on 

gaining the trust of the victim but also mentioned 

that the process will vary from case to case. Lady 

participants mentioned that in future they will take 

active role in creating a relaxed atmosphere for the 

survivor at the police station after rescue. 

Contact Base resource person discussed the need for 

having leadership qualities in the time of rescue and 

post rescue in the participants. An activity was taken 

up in that regard to understand and instill leadership 

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Activity on life skill development 

Group Discussion and Action 

Plan 

Prevention 

qualities. The entire group was made to sit in a 

circle, one person in the circle was asked to go out of 

the room, from among the rest a leader was chosen, 

whatever action this leader took the rest of the group 

had to follow. The person who was sent out was 

called back and now that person had to identify the 

leader. The leader and the rest of the group had to 

ensure that the leader is not identified. The 

participants mentioned that they required 

observation skill to identify the leader similarly they 

would require the same to identify a victim or 

offender. 

Participants were divided into four groups to hold 

group discussion on topics like, ‘what should be role 

of police’ and ‘what should be the role of society’ in 

preventing human trafficking. The participants 

mentioned that police should identify source and 

should communicate with the villagers to collect 

information, should make RG at the village level and 

should maintain good relation with the Panchayats. 

They want to create a good linkage with the RPF for 

preventing the crime. They were of the opinion that 

during their night patrolling, they must interrogate 

any suspected person and of need be so, also should 

inform the police station and NGOs. They also said 

that they should enquire about the new comers in 

village and sensitize people in vulnerable condition 

about human trafficking. 

According to the participants, migration is a problem 

of the area. They suggested that the Panchayat 

should keep a register of the people who are 

migrating. For girls who are being married out side 

the village, the Panchayat should know about where 

the in-laws live. They emphasized upon importance 

of good relationship between parents and children. 

According to them, the society should not only be 

made aware of this phenomenon but, it should also 

play an active role in bringing the victims into the 

mainstream. 

SLARTC resource person briefed the participants 

about the legal aspects of prevention. The 

participants mentioned that usually after submission 

of charge sheet they do not maintain any contact 

with the witness of the case and that it has been a 

wrong practices on their part as it affects the case in 

the wrong way at the time of conviction. 

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Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





51 94 



57 91 



54 97 




51 97 



46 97 



74 97 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

77 92 



• The participants mentioned having now understood that prostitution and trafficking 

are not same 

• They mentioned that they got the information how to collect the intelligence from the 

society, proper rescue procedure and the role of police in post rescue time. 

• They said they got clear idea about victim and trafficker which will help them in 

identifying the victims. 

• Participants mentioned that earlier they did not have a clear idea on laws and the 

basic difference between child who needs care and protection and child who is in 

conflict with law. 

• They mentioned that now they have a clear idea about CSE and ‘Brothel’. 

• They got clear idea about source, transit and destination point and the situation of 

human trafficking in India. 

• Some participants mentioned that they did not have any idea about those people who 

exploit the children sexually and that there is a punishable section under IPC for the 

same. 

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• They need this kind of training programme to improve and relate to the exact 

problems of the society. 

• Social awareness is critical in preventing this organized crime otherwise it will take a 

momoth shape and engulf our society 


• If they get any information of human trafficking case, as supporting police person 

they will inform their higher authority as early as possible. 

• They will try to make people aware in their free time. 

• As a police person they can keep vigilance in the vulnerable areas and make people 

aware of the issue. 

• One of the participant mentioned ‘we will form a five man committee to make people 

aware and play an active role in preventing human trafficking’. 

• As a police person they will try to apply the proper laws to punish the accused. 

• Police would need to maintain good communication with the local Panchayat and 

local NGOs 

• Rehabilitation starts after rescue and it is very important to get trust of the 

victim so the role of police at the time of rescue is critical 

• The participants mentioned that police need to change their behavior with the victim 

and they should handle the case more humanly. 

Problems: 

• There is lack of female staff in police in the district. 

• Tremendous work pressure is a big problem for them. 

• Participants mentioned that many a times owing to lack awareness and knowledge 

people create problems for the police at the time of rescue. 




objective. 

97 03 




interesting. 

100 


Sl. 

No. 



2 SLARTC 97 3 


4 PTC 91 9 

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Sl. No. Name Designation Posted at 

1 Raj Kumar Ghosh ASI 1708 Ghatal PS 

2 Uttam Kumar Khila Constable M 231 Kharagpur Town 

3 Badal Chandra Dhabal ASI 1955 Chandrakona TOP 

4 Nayan Ch Mondal ASI 139 Jambani PS 

5 Rajen Murmu Constable 1135 Belyabera PS 

6 Mahadev Hembram Constable 1980 Jambani PS 

7 Rabindra Sarkhel Constable 825 Daspur PS 

8 Uttam Kr Chaudhury ASI 516 Daspur PS 

9 Bansidhar Mukherjee ASI 819 Sabang PS 

10 Ajit Roy Constable 1244 Sabang PS 

11 Naresh Mahato ASI 1927 Anandapur PS 

12 Ajay Lama ASI 2211 Nimpura PS 

13 Supriya Ranjan Jana Constable Kotwali PS 

14 Dibyendu Sundar Das Constable Belda PS 

15 Banshi Badan Kundu Constable Ramjibayupur PS 

16 Samaresh Jana ASI Kharagpur PS 

17 Pranab Samanta ASI Keshpur 

18 Ranjit Kr Bhattacharjee Constable Keshpur 

19 Tapan Singha Mahapatra Constable Binpur 

20 Asit Kr Ghosh Constable Anandapur PS 

21 Sisir Mandi Constable Ghatal 

22 Tania Das Lady Constable Kharagpur PS 

23 Sulekha Banerjee Lady Constable Kotwali PS 

24 Lakshmi Hansda Lady Constable Salbone PS 

25 Shelly Chakraborty Lady ASI Kotwali PS 

26 Gopa Singha Lady Constable Garhbeta PS 

27 Rama Biswas Lady Constable Chandrakona PS 

28 Rupali Hembram Lady Constable Debra 

29 Niranjan Roy Constable Debra 

30 Lakshmi Kanta Pal Constable Keshiary PS 

31 Tarun Kr Ghosh Constable Garbeta 

32 Sujit Das ASI Belda PS 

33 Chandi Ghosh Constable Kharagpur 

34 Subrata Karak Constable Nayagram 

35 Shib Das Tantubai Constable Pingla 

36 Satya Narayan Ghosh Constable Narayangarh 

Contact Base 127



District: Coochbehar 

Venue : Police line Coochbehar 

Workshop Dates: 16 th -17 th November,2007 


Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Raja Chakraborty, Nirmalya Roy, Pratim Roy Chowdhury. 

Souvik Basu 


Biswajit Ghosh Hazra,Subhasis Bhattacharya 


12 ASIs and 20 Constables from Sitai, Mathabhanga, kuchlibari, DCRB, Mekligunj, 

Dinhata, Ghokdanga, Nagarhat, Tufangunj, Baxirhat, GKL Ps, attended the workshop. 

The participants did not have much knowledge on trafficking, they did not know about 

the different sections of ITPA. Rank and gender wise number of participants is detailed 

below 


ASI 12 00 12 


Total 28 4 32 

Shri Meghnath Sarkar, DSP (Crime) and Shri Arijit Goswami, RI Coochbehar were 

present in the workshop to address the participants. 


Day 1 


Purpose 



Assessing 






The details are added below. 

In this session the participants identified the different types of 

Trafficking and the difference between Human trafficking and the 

rest. 

Contact Base 128






group discussion. Participants identified lack of knowledge about 

trafficking as the sole reason for human trafficking. Different issues 

like Gender discrimination of which the women are at the receiving 

end and the problems, which arise out of male-female 


vulnerable conditions which makes them easy targets of trafficking 

was also discussed. That anyone can become a victim of trafficking 

and a trafficker can be from anywhere or anyone around us, he/she 

can be a known or an unknown person whom we see in life daily; 

but that a trafficker will be a person who is familiar with the people 

of that area/locality was talked about. Concepts like missing persons 

can also be trafficked, the different routes/channels of trafficking, 

what for trafficking is being done, what are the reasons for getting 

trafficked were also clarified. Participants said that a new dimension 

of Human trafficking, which was unknown to them, is clarified. 

During the earlier session, it was observed that, most of the 

participants were confused regarding identification and 

differentiating between the victim and the accused. Detailed 

discussion was held with the participants, where the PTC officials 

identified the situation and conditions, which make the 

women/adolescents/ young girls vulnerable, and victims to the 

traffickers. 

Day 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 





observation skills 


Before the recapitulation activity started a concentration exercise was 

done to help the participants prepare for the daylong workshop. Then 

the participants said that this was the first time they were discussing 

human trafficking in such detail. 

It was observed that the SOs did not have much knowledge about the 

ITPA and also did not feel that knowledge of law is not necessary, 

as they do not have much scope to apply the same. The participants 

were not aware that the customer is also punishable under ITPA. 

They were then sensitized on the importance of knowing relevant 

laws for strengthening prosecution and prevention of crime. 

Good observation skill is an important asset for a policeman. To 

understand and work on it an exercise was undertaken. 

Contact Base 129



Officers in 


intelligence gathering 

and rescue of a victim 







Mental health ,care of 

victims and 


Prevention 


Feedback and 

Evaluation 



collection of evidences, the things which have to be kept in mind 

during rescue operations. The participants said that they learned 

many things from this session especially the wrapping, labeling and 

collection of evidence. 






Sanlaap discussed the mental health condition of the 

victims.Resource person of Sanlaap conducted participatory 

discussion on the issue of proper rehabilitation process. In this 

session participants mention that police and society have a 

responsibility to aware a child victim about their rights. They also 

mentioned that they need some alternative economic support to 

improve their life style and the proper rehabilitation should possible 

if we provide them all type of medical, social, and economic support. 




The participants mentioned that more efforts should be made to 


attempt to spread mass awareness about traffickers and victims 

among their colleagues should be made. They assessed that NGO and 

police should work together to rehabilitate the traffic victim. 


Contact Base 130



Sl 

No. 

Statement 

1 Trafficking and prostitution are the same. 


Pre- Post- 


78 92 


persons” under the law. 61 94 


therefore, a criminal. 72 94 


because they have committed no crime. 58 94 

5 An adult woman can never be trafficked. 

69 97 











parlour. 

58 94 


prostitution. 81 97 



“I have learnt a lot from this workshop which wouldn’t have been possible to 

learn had I not attended the workshop like, the subject of human trafficking, 

newer acts and laws, how people are trafficked. 

Participants commented on their learning that not only women but also men and 

children are trafficked. 

Participants shared that they have learnt ways of preventing trafficking. 

“From this workshop, I learnt about ITPA and other issues related to trafficking 

and also I learnt about the roles of different NGOs in relation to trafficking”. 

Contact Base 131



It is possible to prevent this crime with the help of NGOs and villagers. 

People need to made aware and conscious of the allurances which lead it 

increased vulnerability towards trafficking. 


Some participants mentioned that they would work towards building the 

awareness and cautioning people about trafficking. Even if I can’t do it on my 

own, I will assist in doing the same. 

‘Public relations need to be improved’. 

One of the participant mentioned that, people’s awareness, efficiency of judiciary, 

help from various NGOs are all important factors in determining the success of 

prevention of the crime. And in their case, failure in preventing may be due to 

lack of proper communication facilities. 

Problems: 

The proactiveness of the judiciary is critical in such cases. 

Lack of infrastructure and communication facilities may prove to be a hindrance. 


Sl. 

No. 


1 Contents covered were adequate to reach the objective. 29 7 



4 Methodologies were appropriate to make the training interesting. 

27 9 


Sl. 

No. 


1 Contact Base 33 2 1 

2 SLARTC 32 3 1 

3 SANLAAP 33 1 2 

4 PTC 33 1 2 

Contact Base 132



Sl. No. Name Designation PS 

1 Pinki Neogi Lady Constable Tufangung 

2 Susanta Banik ASI DCRB 

3 Tapas Kumar Basak ASI Tufangung 

4 Gopal Gurung Constable Baxirhat 

5 Roshan Dhanukcy Constable Sitai 

6 Ananta Roy Constable Mathabhanga 

7 Mahadewpada Sharma Constable Dinhata 

8 Madhab Saha ASI Haldibari 

9 Nepal Das Constable DCRB 

10 Biswadip Bhowal Constable DCRB 

11 Bijoy Thapa Constable Kuchlibari 

12 Debendra Rai Constable Kotwali 

13 Mrityunjoy Sarkar ASI Ghoksadanga 

14 Nimai Chandra Sarkar ASI Dinhata 

15 Biresh Chandra Burman Constable Haldibari 

16 Humayun Kabir ASI Nagarhat 

17 Naru Roy Constable Ghoksadanga 

18 Ananata Kumar Roy ASI Kuchlibari 

19 Kamala Roy Lady Constable Women Cell 

20 Goutam Baksi Constable Kotwali 

21 Goutam Chandra Burman Constable Kotwali 

22 Biplab Kumar Das Constable Kotwali 

23 Sunil Chakraborty Constable Kotwali 

24 Kanak Kumar Burman Constable Tufangung 

25 Deepak Thapa ASI Sitai 

26 Madhusudan Bhaumik ASI Reserve Office 

27 Haradhan Nath Thakur Constable Sitai 

28 Sanjay Kumar Ghosh ASI Baxirhat 

29 Pradeep Trikhutri ASI Mathabhanga 

30 Ranu Roy Constable Dinhata 

31 Gita Das Constable Maklegung 

32 Kakali Saha Lady Constable Dinhata 

33 Bidyut Chandra Roy Maklegung 

34 Jyoti Kumar Rai ASI Maklegung 

35 Pabitra Kumar Das Constable Dinhata 

36 Pradip Kumar Das Constable Sitalkuchi 

Contact Base 133



District: Coochbehar Workshop Dates: 19 th -20 th Nov, 2007 

Venue : Police line, Coochbehar 


Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 


Souvik Basu 


Biswajit Ghosh Hazra, Subhasis Bhattacharya 


6 ASIs and 19 Constables from DIB, DEB, Kotwali, Sadar, Women cell, Mathahanga 

Police Stations attended the workshop. It was observed that the participants had some 

basic knowledge about trafficking, but they did not know about the different sections of 

ITPA. Rank and gender wise number of participants is detailed below 

Shri Arijit Goswami, RI Coochbehar, was present in the workshop to address the 

participants and give away the certificates. 


Day 1 


ASI 06 00 06 


Total 18 7 25 


Purpose 





trafficking 




The details are added below. 

In this session the participants identified the different types of 


rest. 

Contact Base 134






Observation Skills 


on CSE, Bonded labor 

Exercise on alertness 



Labour, Organ 





group discussion. Participants identified lack of knowledge on 

trafficking and poor financial condition of the villagers of north 

Bengal as the sole reasons for human trafficking. Different issues 

like Gender discrimination were discussed. Children’s and Women’s 

Right and their vulnerable conditions which make them easy targets 

of trafficking was also discussed. That any one can become a victim 

of trafficking and a trafficker will be a person who is familiar with 

the people of that area/locality was talked about. Concepts like 

missing persons could also have been trafficked, the different 


what are the reasons for getting trafficked were also clarified. 

During the session on clarifying concept it was observed most of the 

participants did not have clear idea on identifying and distinguishing 

between a victim and an offender. Detailed discussion was held with 

the participants, where the trainers from PTC identified the 

situations and conditions, which make the women/ adolescents/ 

young girls vulnerable, and victims to trafficking. 

Good observation skill is an important asset for a policeman. To 

understand and work on it an exercise was undertaken. 

It was observed that the SOs did not have much knowledge on ITPA 

and also did not feel that knowledge of law is not necessary, as they 

do not have much scope to apply the same. The participants were not 

aware that a customer is also punishable under ITPA. They were 

then sensitized on the importance of knowing relevant laws for 

strengthening prosecution and prevention of crime. Participants 

commented that the idea of a brothel changes when we go through 

ITPA. 

One has to stay alert in order to do any work properly. An exercise 

on alertness was taken up to understand this quality. 

A case study was used by the trainer from SLARTC on three minors, 

where one (Indian) had trafficked the other two from Bangladesh, 

where the participants identified who should be sent to JJB and who 

to CWC. Discussion helped in clarifying concepts on relevant laws. 

Contact Base 135


Day 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 

Recapitulation 


Officers in 


intelligence gathering, 

rescue of victim 

Identifying 

stakeholders in 

prevention of 

trafficking 

Mental health ,care of 

victims and 


Prevention 


Feedback and 

Evaluation 


Before the recapitulation activity started a concentration exercise was 

done to help the participants prepare for the daylong workshop. Then 

the participants said that this was the first time they were discussing 

human trafficking in such a detail. The Acts like ITPA was unknown 

to them. 



collection of evidences, the things which have to be kept in mind 

during rescue operations. The participants said that they learned 


collection of evidence. The participants ask question on preservation 

of evidence. 

An participatory exercise was carried out with the participants where 

they tried to build a ‘Safety Net’ around a child through the process 

of identifying other stakeholders in prevention like parents, teachers, 

neighbours etc. 

Sanlaap facilitator discussed the mental health condition of the 

victims. He conducted participatory discussion on the issue of proper 

rehabilitation process. Participants mentioned during the session that 

police and society have a responsibility to make a child victim aware 

of his/ her rights. They also mentioned that they need some 

alternative economic support to improve the life style of the victims 

and proper rehabilitation would only be possible if the victims are 

provided all types of medical, social, and economic support. 



evidence in ensuring prosecution to prevent trafficking. 

The participants mentioned that it is important to implement the laws 

properly, the common person needs to be made aware of the present 

situation related to trafficking. 

The observations of the participants is summarized below. 

Contact Base 136




Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 


1. Trafficking and prostitution are the same. 90 100 

2. Trafficked persons are also called as “soliciting persons” 

under the law. 65 90 

3. Trafficked person indulges in flesh trade and is, therefore, 

a criminal. 65 90 

4. “Customers” can never be arrested under ITPA because 

they have committed no crime. 50 95 

5. An adult woman can never be trafficked. 

75 90 

6. Section 511 IPC is the appropriate section to deal with 


7. A brothel house can be ordered to be closed only by a 


8. The scene of crime in a case of trafficking is only the 


9. The scope of ITPA is limited, and it does not apply to a 

private house where a massage parlour is being run even if 

a trafficked woman is being made to indulge in sexual acts 

under the guise of running a massage parlour. 

10. Trafficking is only done for the purposes of prostitution. 

50 95 

95 95 



One of the participants mentioned that she has now understood the difference 

between a victim and an accused. 

Participants commented that they understood the dimensions of human 

trafficking. 

Some participants commented that the workshop gave them a clear idea on the 

ways and means adopted in case of trafficking and the ways of preventing it 

through laws. 

Participants particularly appreciated the knowledge imparted on ITPA as it was 

completely new information for them. 

Contact Base 137



This kind of training programs should be organized for all government officials of 

all departments. 

People need to be made aware of menace like human trafficking plaguing our 

society. 


Participants felt that apart from being proactive in passing on any relevant 

information regarding trafficking to their superiors, they also have a very 

important role to play in rescue and rehabilitation of a victim. 

Problems: 

Some participants were of the opinion that some social factors may prove to be a 

hindrance in the prevention of this crime. 

Lack of proper infrastructure and system within the police department may 

prevent the retard the process of combating trafficking. 


Sl. 


No. 


objective. 18 2 


3 Sessions were well organized and well paced. 


interesting. 


Sl. 

No. 

1 

2 


Contact Base 

SLARTC 

18 2 

18 2 


4 PTC 17 3 

20 0 

19 1 

19 1 

Contact Base 138



Sl. No. Name Designation PS 

1 Suchitra Debgupta Constable Kotwali 

2 Jashbir Singh Constable Kotwali 

3 Samiran Das Constable Kotwali 

4 Subal Chandra Roy Constable Kotwali 

5 Sachindra Nath Roy ASI Kotwali 

6 Madhusudan Karmakar Constable Kotwali 

7 Sudhir Chandra Barman Constable Kotwali 

8 Alok Tarafdar ASI Kotwali 

9 Sasthi Charan Roy ASI Kotwali 

10 Md. Hafizuddin Mia Constable Kotwali 

11 Goutam Kumar Jha ASI DIBR 

12 Dhirendra Nath Roy Constable Kotwali 

13 Ganesh Murmu ASI Kotwali 

14 Utpal Chakraborty Constable Kotwali 

15 Binapani Roy Constable Mathabhanga 

16 Ranjana Das Lady Constable Kotwali 

17 Samita Roy Lady Constable Women Cell 

18 Supriya Das Lady Constable Kotwali 

19 Jahanara Khatun Constable Mathabhanga 

20 Gopal Sarkar ASI Kotwali 

Contact Base 139



District: Malda Workshop Dates: 21 st -22 nd Nov,2007 

Venue : Police line Malda 


Contact Base: 

SLARTC: 

PTC: 



Biswajit Ghosh Hazra,Subhasis Bhattacharya 


1 ASI and 33 Constables from DIB, DEB, Kotwali, Kaliachowk, Manikchowk, Ratua, 

Reserve office, Bhaluka Police station were present. The participants had fair knowledge 

about trafficking, but were not aware of the different sections of ITPA. Rank and gender 

wise number of participants is detailed below. 

Total 25 9 34 

Shri Samir Barman, DSP (DIB), Malda was present in the workshop during the inaugural 

session to address the participants, and also distribute the certificates. 


Day 1 


ASI 01 00 01 



Purpose 





human trafficking 

Description 



The details are listed in the table below. 

In this session, participants identified the different types of 


other forms. 

Contact Base 140








on CSE, Bonded labor 

Exercise on alertness 







a group discussion. Participants identified lack of knowledge about 

trafficking and poor financial condition of the villagers of north 

Bengal to be the sole reason for human trafficking. Different issues 

like Gender discrimination of which the women are at the receiving 

end and the problems, which arise out of male-female 

discrimination, were discussed. Children’s and Women’s right and 

their vulnerable conditions which make them easy targets of 

trafficking was also discussed. That any one can become a victim of 

trafficking and a trafficker can be from anywhere or anyone around 

us, he/she can be a known or an unknown person whom we see in 

life daily, but that a trafficker will be a person who is familiar with 

the people of that area/locality was talked about. Concepts like 

missing persons could also be trafficked, the different 


what are the reasons for getting trafficked were clarified. 

Participants said that a new dimension of Human trafficking, which 

was unknown to them, has been successfully put forth. 

One of the participants shared a case study where a girl was taken to 

Haryana from Malda by her boyfriend. She was then sold off and 

violated every day. Finally, she could manage to make a phone call 

to her family. Taking a clue from the phone call, officials from 

English bazaar Police Station rescued the girl. 

During the earlier session, it was observed that most of the 

participants were not clear about identifying and thereafter 

distinguishing between a victim and an offender. Detailed discussion 

was taken up with the participants, where the PTC officials 

identified the situation and conditions, which make the women/ 

adolescents/ young girls vulnerable, and victims of trafficking. 

An efficient police official needs to have good observation skills. To 

understand and work on it a theatre based exercise was undertaken. 


ITPA and they felt that knowledge of law is not necessary for them 

as they do not have much scope to apply the same. The participants 

were not aware that the customer is also punishable under ITPA. 

They were then sensitized on the importance of knowing relevant 

laws for strengthening prosecution and prevention of crime. 

An activity was taken up further emphasize and strengthen the 

alertness. 

In a case study on three minors, where one (Indian) had trafficked 

the other two from Bangladesh, the participants identified who 

would be sent to JJB and who to CWC. The discussion held by 

SLARTC helped in clarifying concepts on relevant laws. 

Contact Base 141


Day 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 



Officers in 




Mental health , care of 

victims and 


Safety net 

Prevention 


Feedback and 

Evaluation 

Description 

A concentration exercise was done to help the participants prepare 

for the daylong workshop before the recapitulation activity began. 

The participants said that this was the first time they were discussing 

human trafficking in such detail. 


were not aware of proper procedures of investigation. They were 

sensitized on collection of evidences, details to be kept in mind 

during a rescue operation. The participants said that they learned 


collection of evidence. The participants asked questions on 

preservation of evidence. The participants wanted to know the 

relevance of working with NGOs during rescue and post rescue. 

Mental health has a lot to do with a person’s relation with himself 

and his environment so an exercise was taken up to put the 

participant in touch with themselves and their environment. 

After this activity, the facilitator from Contact Base narrated a story 

about a young girl who gets trafficked and violated. The emotional 

and mental trauma she goes through from the time she lives with her 

family to the time she is trafficked and sold off, to the time she is 

rescued by the police, was discussed. This helped the participants to 

empathize with the situation of the victim. The rehabilitation 

measures that should be taken to help a victim to get back to the 

mainstream were also discussed. 

An activity of forming a safety net was taken up with the participants 

to help them identify the different stakeholders who could help in 

combating human trafficking. 






situation related to trafficking. The participants suggested the if a CD 

is made of the sessions and distributed amongst the police officials 

who could not attend the workshop, it would help in the awareness 

raising process. 

The observations of the participants are summarized below. 

Contact Base 142




Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





19 87 



19 68 



53 81 




31 100 



41 94 



56 90 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

66 100 



The participants particularly appreciated the knowledge they gained on ITPA and 

JJ Act, which they mentioned not having known earlier. 

Participants also mentioned that they understood what needs to be done at their 

level and that they have to work within the framework of law. Particularly laws 

like ITPA, which has definitely empowered Police to take effective actions. 

Some of the participants mentioned that prior to the workshop, human trafficking 

only meant trafficking of women for CSE. But now we also know that even small 

children are trafficked for labour. 

Some of the participants also mentioned that they had the wrong notion that 

Brothels have license, and from the workshop, they have learnt that there is no 

such thing as a licensed brothel. 

Contact Base 143



Some of the participants mentioned that there is a need to strengthen the 

judiciary. 


Participants mentioned that if they ever get any information regarding 

trafficking, they would inform their superiors at the earliest and also assist 

them in the case to the best of their capabilities. 

Participants were of the opinion that to combat social evils like child 

marriage and human trafficking, police officials must be aware and updated 

on the laws. They also mentioned that as police personnel they would also 

take the help of law to make their work more effective. 

One of the participant mentioned that she would use the power given to her 

by virtue of her official position to combat human trafficking. 

Problems: 

 

Participants cited that our judiciary is weak and it poses problem in their 

proper functioning. 




objective. 

62 




interesting. 

62 


Sl. 

No. 



2 SLARTC 56 6 

3 SANLAAP 15 

4 PTC 62 

Contact Base 144


Participant List: 


1 Dwijen Ghosh Constable Manikchawk 

2 Biplab Kumar Sinha Constable Kalichawk 

3 Birendra Nath Pahan Constable B/Nagur 

4 Samar Chandra Jha Constable D.E.B 

5 Dulupada Kundu Constable D.E.B 

6 Mansur Ali Sarkar Constable D.E.B 

7 Monojit Pahan Constable D.A.P 

8 Himangshu Mahato Constable D.A.P 

9 Arup Biswas Constable H.B 

10 Chandan Dey Constable Malda (S) Court 

11 Krishna Dey Lady Constable Malda PS 

12 Kabita Das Lady Constable Malda PS 

13 Maya Chowdhury Lady Constable Manikchawk 

14 Ashman Ara Begam Lady Constable L/O Malda 

15 Kalana Pahan Lady Constable L/O Malda 

16 Tanjama Khatun Lady Constable B/Nagur 

17 Waheda Khatun Lady Constable MT Section (DAP) 

18 Sumita Hasda Lady Constable D.A.P 

19 Sampa Dey Lady Constable MT Section (DAP) 

20 Sukumar Ghosh Constable Control Room 

21 Pradip Kumar Jha Constable Control Room 

22 Bibekananda Chowdhury Constable D.I.B 

23 Harigopal Das Constable D.I.B 

24 Dinesh Chandra Shil Constable Ratua 

25 Khorgeswar Choubey Constable BWHG Office 

26 Paresh Chandra Roy Constable Malda Police Line 

27 Jadu Oraon Constable D.E.B 

28 Abdul Qumiyam Constable Malbari 

29 Pratul Chandra Misra Constable Manikchawk 

30 Namita Misra (Jha) Constable L/O Malda 

31 Jiban Singh Constable Reserve Office 

32 Biswanath Lahiri Constable Manikchawk 

33 Bindas Kumar Sinha Constable Bhaluka (H.C) 

34 Buddhiram das ASI Reserve Office 

Contact Base 145



District: Malda Workshop Dates: 26 th -27 th Nov, 2007 

Venue : Police line Malda 


Contact Base 

SANLAAP 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Nirmalya Roy, Susanta Mukherjee 

Anandita Mukherjee 

Dibyendu Hati 

Biswajit Ghosh Hazra, Subhasis Bhattacharya 


19 Constables from DIB, Kotwali, Police line, Bamongola, Ratua, Reserve office, 

Habibpur Police station were present. It was observed that the participants had fair 

knowledge about trafficking, but they were not very aware about the different sections of 

ITPA. Rank and gender wise number of participants is detailed below 


ASI 01 00 01 


Total 25 9 34 

Shri Amol Kanti Mondol, RI Malda, was present in the workshop and distributed the 

certificates. 


Day 1 


Purpose 





Human trafficking 





In this session, the participants identified the different types of 


other forms. 

Contact Base 146



Mental health of 

Victims and 

rehabilitation 








group discussion. Participants shared that human trafficking takes 

place with an objective of making sacrifice to god and for bondage 

labour. Many people are taken away from different parts of Malda. 

Different issues like Gender discrimination of which women are at 

the receiving end and the problems, which arise out of male- female 


vulnerable conditions which makes them easy targets of trafficking 

was also discussed. Further it was discussed that any one can 

become a victim of trafficking and a trafficker can be from anywhere 

or anyone around us and that a trafficker is a person who is familiar 

with the people of that area/locality. Concepts like missing persons 

can also be trafficked, the different routes/channels of trafficking, 

what for trafficking is being done, what are the reasons for getting 

trafficked were also clarified. Participants commented that a new 

dimension of Human trafficking, which was unknown to them, has 

been clarified. 

Participant shared that lack of knowledge is the reason behind this 

type of crimes, unless people are made aware, this menace will 

continue to plague our society and even flourish day by day. 

They also mentioned that allurance towards a better living is 

thronging them in the danger zone. 

To understand the mental health of a victim Sanlaap held an 

exercise of a thought provoker which helped the participants to 

empathize with the situation of a victim. A participatory discussion 

was held on the issue of proper rehabilitation process. The 

participants mentioned that police and society have a responsibility 

to make a child victim aware of their rights. They also mentioned 

that they need some alternative economic support to improve their 

life style and the proper rehabilitation would only be possible if we 

provide them with all types of medical, social, and economic 

support. 

During the clarifying concept it was observed that the participants 

were not clear about the aspect of identifying a victim and an 

offender as well as differentiating between them. Detailed discussion 

was held with the participants, where the PTC trainer identified the 

situation and conditions, which make the women/adolescents/ young 

girls vulnerable, and victims of trafficking. 

For an efficient police official man good observation skills is of 

prime importance. To understand and work on it, a theatre based 

exercise was undertaken. 


ITPA and also felt that knowledge of law is not necessary, as they 

do not have much scope to apply the same. The participants were not 

aware that the customer is also punishable under ITPA. They were 

then sensitized on the importance of knowing relevant laws for 

Contact Base 147


Day 2 

strengthening prosecution and prevention of crime. 


Purpose 

Warm up and 


Exercise on Body 

language and physical 

fitness 







Officers in 




Safety net 

Prevention 


Feedback and 

Evaluation 


The day started with a concentration exercise prior to the 

recapitulation of the last day’s learning’s to help the participants 

prepare for the daylong workshop. Then the participants said that this 

was the first time they were discussing human trafficking in such a 

detail. 

Through a discussion with the participants, it was emphasized upon 

that body language matters a lot when someone presents himself/ 

herself before others. Even a small mistake in body language can 

have a completely different interpretation and may even worsen the 

situation. So, in order to improve body language certain theatre based 

exercises were taken up with the participants. 




concepts on relevant laws. 

PTC trainer held a lecture-based session. The participants were not 

aware of the proper procedures of investigation. They were 

sensitized on aspects like collection of evidences, points to be kept in 

mind during rescue operations. The participants commented that they 

learnt many things from this session especially the wrapping, 

labeling and collection of evidence. The participants asked questions 

on preservation of evidence. The participants wanted to know the 

relevance of working with NGOs during rescue and post rescue, 

which was then clarified. 

A theatre based activity of building a ‘Safety Net’ was taken up with 

the participants to help them identify the different stakeholders who 

could help in combating trafficking. 



evidence and ensuring prosecution to prevent trafficking. 



situation related to trafficking. More over every one of us is in 

danger zone so we all should continue to spread the knowledge to the 

others. 


Contact Base 148




Sl 

Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





31 79 



42 79 



68 79 




53 79 



42 74 



74 79 





parlour. 


prostitution. 

84 95 



“From this workshop I learnt about the worst crime of present times, globally, 

human trafficking, how I can rescue victims of trafficking, how and where to give 

them shelter and how and with the help of which Acts I can help in the conviction 

of an offender.” 

Some of the participants commented that they learn’t in details about the 

ramification of human trafficking and the rehabilitation of the victims. They also 

mentioned that they learn’t about the various laws and Acts which would help 

them in carrying out their duties effectively. They particularly appreciated the 

information on the help available from various NGOs. 

Some of the participants expressed their confidence that the knowledge imparted 

to them in the training program would surely enable them in combating the 

menace. 

One of the participants shared that he the knowledge he got from the workshop 

would be applicable in any circumstances for combating. 

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Participants were of the opinion that more such workshop should be held so that 

each police official is enlightened and empowered with the knowledge to combat 

human trafficking. 


“If I ever come across a case of human trafficking then I would immediately 

inform an NGO or magistrate through telephone”. 

“I would keep in mind the powers and rights I have as a police official and taking 

the knowledge gained from the workshop as my treasure I will dedicate myself in 

combating the crime through helping my superior official in investigation”. 

Problems: 

One of the participants shared his apprehension saying he doesn’t feel that 

confident of combating the crime, and the reason he sited was the very organized 

nature of the crime. 




objective. 

84 




interesting. 

79 


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2 SLARTC 79 

3 SANLAAP 73 

4 PTC 79 

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List of Participant: 


1 Basanti Bhowmick Lady Constable Bamangola 

2 Maman Goswami Lady Constable English Bazar 

3 Karan Pradhan Constable English Bazar 

4 Pabitra Chakraborty Constable English Bazar 

5 Harish Chandra Roy Constable English Bazar 

6 Nihar Ranjan Das Constable Reserve Office 

7 Budhinath Saw Constable English Bazar 

8 Dilip Dey Constable Ratua 

9 Najrul Islam Constable Habibpur 

10 Prasad Poddar Constable English Bazar 

11 Upendra Nath Singha Constable Police Line 

12 Amal Das Constable Police Line 

13 Santosh Sarkar Constable English Bazar 

14 Tapan Samaddar Constable Bamangola 

15 Ashok Mukherjee Constable English Bazar 

16 Tikaram Constable Police Line 

17 Pradip Kumar Bagchi Constable Habibpur 

18 Satyadeb Sarkar Constable English Bazar 

19 Pradip Kumar Jha Constable English Bazar 

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District : Kolkata Workshop Dates: 16th-17 st December, 2007 



Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

PTC 

Swarnendu Sarkar, Sushanta Mukherjee, Niloy Basu 

Anandita Mukherjee 

Dibyendu Hati, Prasenjit Chakraborty 

Deboshree Chaterjee 


13 ASIs and 13 Constables from, Cossipore PS , Burrabazar PS , Chitpur PS,Posta PS, 

Muchipara PS,New Market PS,Girish Park PS,Jorabagan PS,Shyampukur, PS TaltalaPS, 

Jorasanko PS,Hare Street PS and Bow Bazar Police Stations attended the workshop. The 

participants had some prior experience in handling human trafficking cases. Rank and 


. 


ASI 13 00 13 


Total 26 00 26 


Day - 1 


Purpose 





activity) 

Assessing 






human trafficking, as they have been involved in many rescue 







participants followed a direction from the facilitator, they were 

asked to take a step forward on one clap and take a step backwards 

on two clap . Whoever made a mistake or lost concentration was out 

of the game and was asked to introduce himself. 


They mentioned trafficking of women and children, domestic 

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on CSE (ITPA, IPC) 


offenders, victims and 

investigation 

violence, eve teasing, rape and murder, child labour. 

A participatory discussion was conducted for clarification of 

concepts. While discussing gender issues the participants identified 

very clearly the position of males and females in our society and the 

rights of women and children. They also mentioned that unsafe 

migration and exploitation is the main elements of human 

trafficking. The traffickers are very clever and their networks are 

very powerful. The participants also said that traffickers are more 

organized than police. They mentioned that sometimes parents sell 

their child. However, when they do not get enough money they go to 

police and file a missing dairy. 

Gender issue is a big problem of our society and is a cause behind 

the vulnerability of women and children. They also mentioned 

migration for job as one of the main mode of human trafficking in 

their district. They shared that the traffickers promise jobs to the 

needy and after winning their trust, they start exploiting the person. 

They were of the opinion that trafficking is also possible within the 

same room where there is a change of environment from safe to 

unsafe. The participants identified CSE as the main purpose of 

human trafficking. The route of trafficking and the vulnerable 

position of India and in particular West Bengal was shared through a 

presentation. 


what is the most important part of their body for observation and 

identification of traffickers and victims, they said eyes. The 


their eye contact intact. They realized that eye contact is very 



The SLARTC resource persons spoke to the participants on the 

relevant Acts like ITPA, IPC as well as the appropriate section of 

these Acts. The participants mentioned that they knew about the 

term - CSE and the ITPA. The resource person elaborately discussed 

about CSE and the definition of a brothel. Participant mentioned that 

the place where CSE occurres are called brothels. It may be a 

footpath also. The participants queried that if a prostitute seduces 

any person, is she an accused 

Resource persons from Kolkata Police lectured the participants on 

their role in identifying vulnerable persons, victims and traffickers in 

source, transit and destination points. The participants mentioned 

that people from every age could be a victim of human trafficking. 

The resource person from Kolkata police narrated a personal 

experience. The police got news that a trafficker was hiding at the 

Harkata gali. When they made a raid the trafficker was not found, 

instead a little girl was found there who was probably being held to 

be trafficked later on. 

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Day - 2 

A resource person from Kolkata Police discussed the intelligence 

collecting process and proper investigation procedure. In this session 

the participants mentioned that they do not any clear idea about 

collecting, wrapping, and leveling process. 


Purpose 

Warm up and 







Activity on team 

building 








The second day started with an activity on flexibility and physical 

fitness. After that we gave the participants a sheet on which a 

character was written. The participants should identify the character 

as victim or accused. This activity was done to know the perceptions 

of the participant that they gathered from the previous sessions. 

The resource person from SLARTC discussed the relevant laws 

related to trafficking. It was seen that the participants have 

knowledge on the JJ Act. They mentioned that Children who are in 

need of care and protection should be brought to CWC. 

Observation is an important aspect of communication, to understand 

and work on this an exercise was done. The participants were made 

to sit in a circle. One of the participants was sent out of the room. 

The others choose a leader among themselves. Whatever actions the 

leader makes the others follow. The person who was sent out comes 

back to the room and tries to find out who the leader is. 

The resource persons from Kolkata police discussed the proper 

process of interviewing victims and counseling. They said that the 

presence of lady police officials is very important. If the victim 

refuses to give an interview he or she can be sent to an NGO (dealing 

with the issue) for counseling. The lady police mentioned that they 

were in the rescue process several times but they were not present 

during the time of interviewing since no one informed them. With 

the presence of NGOs in the rescue and post rescue process has made 

the job of the police officials much easier, the NGOs use their 

sources and help the police. 

A resource person from Sanlaap discussed the mental health of the 

victim. The participants shared their thoughts about the fact that a 

victim suffers from fear, an identity crisis, is suicidal, trustless etc. 

The resource person of Sanlaap mentioned that the rescue of a victim 

is the start of a positive journey. A story about a trafficked girl was 

narrated and then the participants were divided into two groups. One 

group was to give their opinion as the girls parents and the other 

group was to give their view as the girl after being rescued. 

The parents asked if the can bring their daughter back as there would 

be a lot of societal pressure. Some parents said that they would take 

their daughter for medical tests. Some said they do not care about 

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Activity on Safety Net. 

Prevention 

Feedback and 

Evaluation 

society; they with take their daughter home. 

After rescue the girl felt good about seeing her loved ones but soon 

she got depressed. She began to wonder if society and her parents 

would accept her. She would start hating the patriarchal society. 

In a case of trafficking mental health of the victim is important, if the 

police officials keep this in mind it would help the case. 

The participants got together with the facilitator to make the safety 

net that could stop innocent people from getting trafficked. The 

participants one by one identified the people in society who could 

come together to form the safety net. Parents, doctor, teacher, 

Panchayat Pradhan, police, friends were identified as the people who 

could form the safety net. 

A resource person from Kolkata Police discussed the role of the 

police in the prevention of human trafficking. The participants 

mentioned that their job is transferable, so there is no particular 

source that they can work on. The resource person mentioned that it 

is our responsibility to inform the new coming police person about 

the sources of specific areas. 

It was seen that the participants were not aware of the gravity of the 

problem. They didn’t know about ITPA and CSE. They were 

surprised to know that trafficking in human beings is listed third in 

the category of crimes worldwide. Many of them also didn’t know 

that customers are also exploiters and can be punished under the law. 

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Statement 

Pre- Post- 

No. 





42 96 



42 96 



88 96 




42 96 



35 96 



65 96 




65 96 

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parlour. 


prostitution. 

61 96 


The participants appreciated the workshop for the interactive sessions in which different 

resource persons have helped them in their understanding on the issues of human 

trafficking and the ways to combat it. They also personally interacted with the different 

resource person of different organizations, asking help from them for different issues. 

Some of them said that they sometimes faced many problems, but now they will contact 

these organizations if they face such kind of problems. They mentioned that the list of 

CWCs and short stay home, which they previously did not have, is essential for them. 



Participants felt that it is possible to stop human trafficking by following the laws and 

getting people from different strata of society together to join hands in combating 

Human Trafficking. 

They learnt that minors should be sent to homes. 

What needs to be done : 

Make people from every strata of society aware of this problem. 

Work with NGOs to fight this problem. 


They can work with NGOs to help survivors. 

Problems: 

Proper infrastructure has to be made available to fight this problem. 


Sl. 

No. 


1 Contents covered were adequate to reach the 92 8 

objective. 




interesting. 

92 8 

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Sl. 

No. 


Contact Base 92 4 4 

SLARTC 92 4 4 


PTC 69 8 23 


1 Nirupam Palit ASI Cossipore 

2 Mahadeb Das Constable Cossipore 

3 Swapan Kumar Ghosh Constable Burrabazar 

4 Paramed Shaw Constable Chitpur 

5 Prasanta Kumar Daksha Constable Posta 

6 Ratan Kumar Gope ASI Chitpur 

7 Haru Dhibor Constable Muchipara 

8 Khokan Biswas Constable New Market 

9 Md. Golam Hossen ASI New Market 

10 Manan Kumar Maji Constable Girish Park 

11 Asish Banerjee Constable Jorabagan 

12 Prodip Roychowdhury ASI Shyampukur 

13 Ramakant Tiwary ASI Girish Park 

14 P.K. Maity ASI Burrabazar 

15 V. Roy ASI Taltala 

16 Nabakumar Saha ASI Muchipara 

17 Pradip Kumar Nath ASI Bowbazar 

Pallab Kumar 

Mazumder Constable Jorasanko 

18 

19 Ujjwal Banerjee ASI Jorasanko 

20 Lakshmi Narayan Roy ASI Hare Street 

21 Dipak Kumar Kanjilal Constable Bowbazar 

22 Niranjan Kumar Das ASI Posta 

23 Jayanta Kumar Roy Constable Shyampukur 

24 Susanta Saha Constable Hare Street 

25 Malay Kumar De Constable Taltala 

26 

Kamakhya Narayan 

Singh ASI Jorabagan 

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District : Kolkata Workshop Dates: 29 th -30 th Dec, 2007 



Contact Base 

Sanlaap 

SLARTC 

Kolkata Police 

Nirmalya Roy, Sushanta Mukherjee, Pratim Roychoudhury 

Alok Goswami 

Dibyendu Hati, 

Gouri Mukherjee 


13 ASIs and 13 Constables from, Entally, Tangra, Maniktala, Beniapukur, Ultadanga, 

Phoolbagan, Beleghata, Narkeldanga, Topsia, Sinthi, Armer St. PS attended the 

workshop. The participants had some prior experience in handling human trafficking 

cases. Rank and gender wise number of participants is detailed below. 


ASI 13 00 13 


Total 26 00 26 

Smt. Debashree Chatterjee, OC IT was present in the workshop. 


Day - 1 


Purpose 





activity) 




At the beginning of the day the objectives of the workshop was 

shared and the participants were introduced to the resource persons. 


human trafficking, as they have been involved in many rescue 



A short discussion on the workshop goals and objectives with the 

participants was done. The participants were asked to close their 

eyes and clap as many times as the facilitator did. This helped 

everyone to concentrate. Then a simple activity was held on 

alertness where the participants carried out the direction given by the 

facilitator. They were asked to raise their right hand when the 

facilitator says left and left hand when the facilitator says right. 

Whoever made the mistake or lost concentration was asked to 

introduce himself or herself. 

The participants identified top crimes affecting our society. They 

identified trafficking of women and children, domestic violence, 

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trafficking 



on CSE (ITPA, IPC ) 




Investigation 

rape and murder, child labour as the major crimes inflicting our 

society today. The facilitator clarified that trafficking is a basket full 

of crimes. In trafficking cases all those crimes and many more 

happen directly or indirectly that is why it is necessary for us to 

understand it and combat it. 

Participatory discussions were conducted for clarification of 

concepts. While discussing it, participants told that traffickers are 

changing their style of action, that they are very good in 

communication and that people easily trust them and therefore 

become a victim. They also mentioned that unsafe migration and 

exploitation are the main elements of human trafficking. The 

participants asked a question: if the parents sell their child should 

they also be treated as traffickers The question was clearly 

answered. The participants identified routes of trafficking in West 

Bengal, reasons of trafficking etc. They further mentioned that 

Kolkata is a major transit point and therefore they need to be all the 

more careful. Some participants shared their experience as they are 

part of the rescue team. The participants mentioned that every person 

from any age group could become a victim of human trafficking. At 

the end of the session participants wondered, if the traffickers are so 

powerful how can a police force stop them. The answer was given 

through an activity where a safety net was built to protect a nineyear 

old girl, the participants identified several stakeholders like 

parents, relatives, neighbor, doctor, teacher, police, and lawyer, 

NGOs etc who could be of help in combating the menace. 

Resource person from SLARTC held a lecture based session on the 

relevant Act like ITPA, IPC and the appropriate section of those Act. 

The participants mentioned that they were not aware of the terms 

CSE and ITPA. The resource person elaborately discussed about 

CSE and the definition of brothel. Participants mentioned those 

places are called brothels where CSE takes place, it may be footpath 

also. The participants mentioned that they did not properly know the 

ITPA and they thought it could be a good weapon against the 

traffickers. 


about the most important part of their body for observation and 

identification of traffickers and victims, to which they all answered 

‘Eyes’. The participants then stood in a circle and exchanged their 

places keeping their eye contact intact. They realized that eye 

contact is a very crucial aspect of communication, which has many 

applications, whether it is used for observation or for intimidating an 


A resource person from Kolkata Police discussed the intelligence 

collection process and proper investigation procedure. In this session 

the participants mentioned that they did not have any clear idea 

about the collection, wrapping , and labeling processes. 

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Day - 2 


Purpose 

Warm up and 







Theatre based activity 

on enhancing team 

coordination 







Feedback and 

Evaluation 


The second day started with an activity to flexible and warm up the 

participants. After that we gave a sheet to the people, on which a 

character was written. The participants were to identify the character 

as a victim or an accused. This activity was done to know the 

perceptions the participant gathered from the previous sessions. 

The resource person from SLARTC discussed about the other 

relevant laws related with trafficking. It was observed that the 

participants had the knowledge on JJ Act. They mentioned that 

Children who are in need of care and protection should be located in 

CWC. 

Teamwork is extremely important for preventing organized crime 

like trafficking. A simple activity named ‘Over and under’ was 

carried out where two teams passed a ball; consecutively passing it 

over the head or under the legs. The participants were invigorated 

with team sprit. They commented that they realized they have to be 

cordial and united as they work towards stopping traffickers. 

The Kolkata police resource person discussed the proper process of 

interviewing victims and counseling. Certain aspects were reflected 

upon like the presence of lady police officials being important and 

what to do if the victim refuses to give an interview. In that case he 

or she can be sent to an NGO (dealing with the issue) for counseling. 

The participants said that they did not know that NGOs of good help 

in these cases. The resource person also mentioned that rescue starts 

at a brothel and ends on rehabilitation. So, the male police officials 

should control their curiosity and they should ensure that 

photographers are not allowed during a rescue process, otherwise the 

rescue can not be completed. 

Trainer from Sanlap elaborated on the mental health aspect of a 

victim. The participants shared that the victims don’t tell them the 

proper address and they also don’t tell the truth. The trainer 

mentioned that the rescue of a victim is the start of a positive journey 

as the has been traumatized by previous events. During interrogation, 

the physical and mental health of the victim should be kept in mind. 

They also discussed whom to contact and what to do for proper 

rehabilitation or mainstreaming the victims. The trainer also 

mentioned that support is very important for the victim and one 

should ensure that she / he is not treated as an accused. 

It was observed that the participants were not aware of the intensity 

of the problem although they have an idea of women trafficking. 

They said they didn’t know about ITPA and CSE nor did they know 

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that all the magistrates like DM or SDO have the power to close a 

brothel. Many of them also were unaware of the fact that customers 

are also exploiters and can be punished under the law. In case of 

CSE they realize that the victim not always got the right support due 

to a lack of knowledge. 


The participants appreciated that in some cases they learned by doing certain activities in 

the workshop. It helped them to understand the subject properly. Different resource 

persons have helped them in their understanding of the issues of human trafficking and 

the ways of combating it. They also personally interacted with the resource persons from 

different organizations asking advice or help on different issues. They also mentioned 

that there are many problems in the police force, however, if we start to make people 

aware, the rate of trafficking will decrease since people will be more careful in and 

around their own house. 

Pre and Post Training Evaluation: 


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Pre- Post- 

No. 



2 Trafficked persons are also called as “soliciting persons” 

under the law. 

46 88 

3 Trafficked person indulges in flesh trade and is, therefore, a 

criminal. 

08 88 

4 “Customers” can never be arrested under ITPA because they 

have committed no crime. 

46 88 




19 88 

7 A brothel house can be ordered to be closed only by a Judicial 

Magistrate. 

31 88 

8 The scene of crime in a case of trafficking is only the brothel 

room where sexual act takes place. 

50 88 

9 The scope of ITPA is limited, and it does not apply to a 

private house where a massage parlour is being run even if a 

trafficked woman is being made to indulge in sexual acts 

46 92 

under the guise of running a massage parlour. 

10. Trafficking is only done for the purposes of prostitution. 46 88 

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objective. 

96 4 




interesting. 

96 4 


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2 SLARTC 88 12 00 

3 SANLAAP 97 3 00 

4 PTC 88 12 00 



• They understood that trafficking is an organized crime, and that Kolkata functions as 

a source transit and destination area. 

• They learnt how human rights are violated in trafficking 

• They were made aware of the rescue process and investigation techniques. 

• They mentioned that now it is clear to them why female victims do not tell the truth at 

first. 

• They learnt how to interact with the victim. 

• They were not aware of the magnitude of the problem. Now they want to help in 

raising awareness among the common people concerning this issue. 


• They felt that, in general, people are not aware of this problems so it is important to 

make people aware. 

• Teamwork is very important in fighting this problem. 

• NGOs could be of great help. 

• They felt that by using the law properly these cases could be solved easily. 


• They will ask for support from NGOs whenever it is necessary. 

• They will use the things learnt in the workshop to combat trafficking. 

• They will interact with the victims from a humane point of view. 

• They will share with their colleagues what they have learned from the workshop. 



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1 Lakshmanjee Pathak ASI Entally 

2 Bijay Kumar Singh Constable Entally 

3 Samarendra Nath Chowdhury ASI Tangra 

4 Durgapada Mondal Constable Tangra 

5 Swapan Kumar Das ASI Maniktala 

6 Himadri Sekhar Datta ASI Beniapukur 

7 Sadhan Rajak Constable Beniapukur 

8 Arun Kumar Dutta ASI Ultadanga 

9 Ashim Kumar Das Constable Ultadanga 

10 Sushil Kumar Saha ASI Phoolbagan 

11 Anup Kumar Mitra Constable Phoolbagan 

12 Tapas Kumar Dey ASI Beliaghata 

13 Birendranath Pattanayak Constable Beliaghata 

14 Rajendranath Besra ASI Narkeldanga 

15 Samar Kumar Mondal Constable Narkeldanga 

16 Tulsi Chandra Sinhamahapatra ASI Topsia 

17 Nemai Chandra Mondal Constable Topsia 

18 Chandmohan Tudu Constable Maniktala 

19 Susanta Mridha ASI Tala 

20 Gadadhar Chouni Constable Tala 

21 Malay Saha Chowdhury ASI Sinthi 

22 Radhakanta Mondal ASI Amherst St. 

23 Subhas Chandra Burmuan ASI Burtolla 

24 Subhash Chandra Ghosh Constable Burtolla 

25 Subrata Das Constable Amherst St. 

26 Ashoke Chowdhury Constable Sinthi 

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