Society

Police vow efficiency in search for missing children

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-06-01 23:01

BEIJING - China's Ministry of Public Security has launched a special mechanism that will ensure quick responses to missing children reports, as well as encourage joint efforts by law enforcement agencies during searches for missing children.

Under the mechanism, security workers, patrolling officers and traffic police will jointly control roads in areas where traffickers are suspected to be operating in order to prevent children from being abducted, according to a statement released by the ministry on Wednesday.

Investigative departments will also be required to file and launch probes into missing children cases "as fast as they can," according to the statement.

The statement said that official procedures regarding child abduction cases will be simplified in order to "fully mobilize police resources."

Police departments across the country will utilize radio, television, newspapers, mobile phones and other media platforms to solicit help from the public in solving child abductions, the statement said.

Prior to the establishment of the mechanism, Chinese police launched a nationwide crackdown on human trafficking in April 2009. The crackdown resulted in the rescue of more than 6,700 kidnapped children as of November of last year, according to the ministry.

Police have also made efforts to help reunite abducted children with their parents. These efforts have included the creation of a database of DNA samples from children suspected of being kidnapped, as well as samples from their parents.

The database has helped reunite 813 children with their parents so far, the ministry said in September of last year.