{"id":23253,"date":"2020-09-29T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/sep\/29\/any-focus-on-them-is-good-can-a-new-scheme-help-delhis-missing-children"},"modified":"2020-09-29T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T06:15:10","slug":"any-focus-on-them-is-good-can-a-new-scheme-help-delhis-missing-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23253","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Any focus on them is good&#8217;: can a new scheme help Delhi&#8217;s missing children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 17 children missing every day, the city\u2019s police commissioner hopes a promise of fast-track promotion will inspire officers to reunite more families<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi Police Commissioner SN Srivastava was particularly troubled over the 17 children who went missing in his city every day. So he decided to light a fire in the belly of his force and came up with a new approach.<\/p>\n<p>If any officer could find 50 missing children in a year their promotion would be fast-tracked. It usually takes constables at least five years to be promoted to head constable, and meeting the target would dramatically speed that up.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/sep\/29\/any-focus-on-them-is-good-can-a-new-scheme-help-delhis-missing-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 17 children missing every day, the city\u2019s police commissioner hopes a promise of fast-track promotion will inspire officers to reunite more familiesNew Delhi Police Commissioner SN Srivastava was particularly troubled over the 17 children who went&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,59,62,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-global-development","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23254,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23253\/revisions\/23254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}