Women in India’s police forces face bias from male and sometimes female
counterparts and superiors who consider them weak, less willing to work
and less tough, a new report says. While more women are urgently needed
in the police forces, the numbers alone will not be enough without
equity, the report says.
Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju and Aruna M. Bahuguna, Director
of the National Police Academy, will release the report by the
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) on women police in South
Asia on Wednesday Aug 19,2015
The report examines the situation of women in the
police forces in the Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
While the number of women in the police forces nationally has grown in
India, it remains just over 6 %
There is a wide variation
between the States, with 12 % of Tamil Nadu’s police force being
women as against less than 1 % in Assam.
This is despite the fact
that 12 States have over the years passed rules setting a quota of 30
per cent or more for women in the police force.
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