Gurugram cops help reunite 5 missing kids with families in 1 month

GURUGRAM: The missing person’s cell formed by Gurugram police has helped reunite five missing children with their families within a month of its constitution with the help of the child welfare commission (CWC) and the police force of neighbouring cities.
The cell’s dedicated task is to go through the list of children living in shelter homes across the city and trace their families so that they can be reunited.

ACP (crime) Preet Pal Sangwan said the cell, which was set up in September, includes five members. “The team goes to childcare institutions in the city and makes a list of the children at these homes. They conduct primary interviews of these children and gather information about their families, if they remember any,” said Sangwan.
He added that in most cases, the children don’t remember much as they had been separated years ago. After getting basic information from the children and their caretakers, the team then uses the Zonal Integrated Police Network (ZIPNET) to access the list of missing persons’ complaints filed around the same time that the children went missing.
“Once they have the list of complaints, our team visits the police stations concerned and talks to the parents of the children who had gone missing,” Sangwan said. In case the details of a child match, the team gets in touch with the CWC to reunite him/her with the family, he added.
Five cases have been solved by the team so far. An 11-year-old boy who had gone missing from Ghitorni around seven years back was reunited with his family last week after the joint efforts of the missing person’s cell, CWC and Delhi Police. The team is constantly working with police from the neighbouring cities such as Faridabad, Delhi and Noida since most kids have gone missing from Delhi-NCR, police said.
In two other cases, a deaf and speech-impaired child and a boy with learning difficulties staying at childcare home in Nuh were reunited with their families. “The cell has done commendable work in tracing the families of the missing children. Our objective in the coming months remains to reunite as many children as possible,” said a CWC member.
Sangwan said they wish to intensify the operations of the cell and make sure that they can reunite as many children with their families as possible in the shortest time possible.