'Mardaani' inspires Bihar police

Taking inspiration from Rani Mukherji starrer Bollywood movie 'Mardaani', Bihar Police today organised a workshop on various aspects of human trafficking and how to curb it.
The two-day workshop began here to train deputy superintendent of police, inspector and sub-inspector rank police officers of Patna district about the aspects of human-trafficking and how to curb it effectively, officials said.
CID Inspector General (Weaker Section) Arvind Pandey, the chief guest at the workshop, took questions from police officials and answered them as per the provisions of laws related to human trafficking.
While explaining some of the points, he provided examples from the movie on human trafficking directed by Pradeep Sarkar.

Pandey said that policemen could take inspiration from the way Rani Mukherji's character, a crime branch police officer, busts a human-trafficiking network by hard work and adopting ingenuous ways.
Pandey had issued instructions to all district SPs, GRP SPs and Commandants of Bihar Military Police on Tuesday to arrange shows of the movie for their subordinate police officials to take lessons from it.

"The measures adopted by her are fit to be followed and the Station House Officers and other police officials can increase their efficiency with regard to anti-human trafficking work by implementing them," the IG wrote in his letter to the SPs and others.

As a result, Patna Police officials from Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj to sub-inspectors had watched had the movie at a theatre here.
Speaking on the occasion, Pandey explained various nuances of the trafficking network.
DIG Patna range Ajitabh Kumar introduced the participants to the measures that could be adopted to break human trafficking networks and the methods to conduct investigations in such cases.
Patna zonal IG Kundan Krishnan, Patna SSP and CID SP (Weaker Section) Harpreet Kaur also spoke on the occasion.