Sunday 3 February 2013

Dedicated unit for tracing missing persons in Southern Range, India


A separate and dedicated unit would be establishing to trace missing persons in the entire Southern Range of the state police department.

The Southern Range comprises Mysore, Mandya, Chamarajanagara, Hassan and Kodagu Districts. Police sources told this correspondent the Missing Persons unit will have dedicated staff to track the cases,coordinate with other agencies and ensure the cases are solved.

Mysore City Commissioner of Police K L Sudheer said a meeting of officials, including the Inspector-General of Police, had been held and the new dedicated unit would start functioning within a fortnight.

The Commissioner said the Missing Persons Bureau to cover the entire range was essential given the seriousness of the issue.

It would be set up on the lines of similar bureaux functioning in Delhi and Bangalore. We are fine-tuning the details and working out on the staff requirements to handle the unit, Mr Sudheer said. The Commissioner said the bureau would be provided with the list of names of missing persons along with their photographs, personal belongings, if any, recovered from the sites or provided by complainants and even details of unidentified and unclaimed bodies so as to help cross-verify or establish identity.

Sunday 3 February 2013

http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20130203/2149179.html

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