TIP RESPONSE CENTRE | BREAKING THE ORGANISED CRIME| PROSECUTING TRAFFICKERS
Kosi Lok Manch runs a Trafficking in Persons Response Centre (TIP Response Centre) in Delhi, Kolkata, Siliguri and Guwahati. The Specialized Centre has rescue experts and counsellors that partner with law enforcement officials, border forces (BSF & SSB) and child protection officials, dedicated towards rescuing women and children victims of labour and sexual exploitation and in ensuring that they have access to protection and support. The TIP Response Centre specializes in rescue operations and has developed excellent partnerships with stakeholders across the country ensuring immediate assistance with inter-state & inter-departmental coordination and partnerships. The centre works closely with Nodal Anti-Human Trafficking Units of different states and Anti-Human Trafficking Cell of Ministry of Homes Affairs, Government of India. It also supports the Border Security Forces (at the India-Bangladesh border) and Seema Sashastra Bal (at the India-Nepal Panitanki Border) to intervene in Cross-Border Human Trafficking cases and ensure support and assistance to the victims of trafficking.
With the organization spread across West Bengal, Assam and Bihar, its TIP Response Centre is the hub of search operations of trafficked victims, missing women and children and carry out monitoring of railway stations and trains with Railway Protection Forces to identify victims and locate and trace the traffickers. The organisation also supports the SSB officials at the India-Nepal Panitanki border to continuously monitor the Cross-Border Human Trafficking cases and ensure immediate intervention with law enforcement officials in suspected cases. Our intervention centre has accessibility of professional counsellors, social workers and outreach workers to regularly monitor and intervene in cases of human trafficking.
SPECIAL INTERVENTION IN CROSS BORDER HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES
The Centre work actively with AHTUs, law enforcement officials and labour department across the intervention districts to monitor in cases of trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation. They participate in rescue operations and are working actively to break the organized crime network of human traffickers in the country. It is working actively towards ensuring better inter-state coordination between police by linking AHTUs in the destination and source area for search operation for trafficked victims. The organisation also works actively with the District Administration, District Task Force and Labour Officials to intervene in child labour cases identified in the districts and ensure post-rescue support to the victims.