Seema Dhaka of Delhi Police was awarded the rank of Deputy Deputy Inspector by the Police Commissioner, as an out-of-shift promotion for tracking 76 missing children
“I worked without interruption according to the leads I had been getting. I am certainly happy,” says Seema Dhaka, who was previously the chief of police.
Police Chief Seema Dhaka is the first Delhi police personnel to be granted an off-shift promotion for tracking 76 missing children, authorities said Wednesday.
Dhaka is currently stationed at the Samaypur Badli Police Station in the Outer-North District.
On August 7, Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava announced the granting of additional incentives, including an off-shift promotion, for any police officer or senior police officer rescuing 50 or more missing children under the age of 14 years in a 12-year period. months. At least 15 of the children must be under the age of eight.
In addition, Asadharan Karya Puraskar was announced for any officer or lead police officer who rescues 15 or more missing children under 14 years old (five of them under eight years old) in a 12-month period.
Dhaka is the first police force in the force to be awarded the out-of-shift promotion to locate missing children under the incentive scheme.
She tracked down 76 missing children in a span of two and a half months, and 56 of them were under 14 years old.
“HC Seema Dhaka women, PS Samaypur Badli, deserve congratulations for being the first police officer to be promoted out of turn for recovering 56 children in 3 months under an incentive scheme. Hats off to the fighting spirit and joy brought to families (sic), “Shrivastava tweeted.
Dhaka said it has rescued these children not only from Delhi but also from other states.
He rescued two children from West Bengal, two from the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab and several from Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Noida, Panipat and Bihar, etc.
“There was a detailed case where a seven-year-old boy was rescued from West Bengal. The boy disappeared from his home in 2018 and was rescued in October 2020 from West Bengal,” Dhaka said.
“A woman filed a disappearance report of her seven-year-old son in 2018. The woman changed her address and her mobile phone number and it became very difficult to contact her. We somehow managed to trace her son in West Bengal and went to the village after crossing two rivers, ”he said.
The police chief said the boy was not ready to go to his parents’ house.
“We learned that the boy’s mother married another man. The boy told us that his stepfather did not like him and used to beat him, after which he left home,” he said.
Dhaka joined the Delhi Police on July 3, 2006. She was promoted in 2014 and became Chief of Police. She was posted to the southeast of Delhi and remained posted there until 2012.
She was later transferred to the outer district in 2012 and from there, she was transferred to Rohini and then to the outer-north, police said.
* With inputs from agencies
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