Abstract
Child trafficking is a complex global issue that affects millions of people worldwide yearly and as such requires an comprehensive and urgent response from the law enforcement agents to combat it's continual spread. This huge responsibility seems to be failing for Nigeria Police Force Ebonyi State Command. This study was therefore carried out with the objectives to find out the challenges faced by the Ebonyi state police command in curbing child trafficking specifically in Ebonyi Local Government Area; to identify the major causes of child trafficking in Ebonyi LGA and to determine the effects of trafficking among children in the study area. The study was anchored on social contract theory propounded by Hobbes (1651). It adopts a survey design method, explored both the primary and secondary sources of data and employed the chi-square statistical tool for data analyses. The findings from the analyzed questionnaire distributed to 399 sample size revealed among others that the Ebonyi State Police Command was constrained by inadequate resources and poor co-operation from the citizens of the area to help curb it. The situation also results to high rate of school dropouts as well as juvenile delinquents, misfits and abused children from the area. It was a recommended among others that government should provide enough motivation to men of Nigeria Police Force to be committed and dedicated to their duty. Also the public in the study area should co-operate with the police by providing with first hand information to help curb this ugly menance of child trafficking.