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| CM Mehbooba wants vital posts for women police officers | | |
Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 23: The Jammu and Kashmir government is mulling to ensure that directions issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) are implemented on ground in which it had asked the state to have 33 percent of women in the police force.
Top government sources told the Early Times that the MHA has recommended each police station to have at least three women sub-inspectors and ten women police constables to ensure women help desks are staffed at all times.
As the crimes against the women in the state are witnessing a serious surge, sources said the chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has issued directions that atleast 33 percent of the total police force in the state should comprise of women.
Official documents in possession of Early Times divulge that out of 1 to 35 ranks Jammu & Kashmir ranks 32 vis a vis women strength in police force in various states and UT's. Out of almost 73000 strong police force in Jammu &Kashmir ,there are mere 2252 women in it.
As of now there are only two Women Police Stations are functional one each at Srinagar and Jammu exclusively run by women police officers . Besides four Women Cells are functioning, one each at district Anantnag, Baramulla, Rajouri and Udhampur on internal arrangement basis.
Reports inform that in a bid to increase the number of women in police force, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued an advisory to JK for achieving the target of 33 % reservation to women. The Ministry has proposed creating Investigative Units for Crimes against Women (IUCAW) at police stations in crime prone districts across states. These units would be constituted on a cost sharing basis between the Centre and the states.
An official in the state home department said that at present there are discussions going on at present that there has any woman DGP, zone IG or Range DIG in J&K's history. "Even the successive Government's haven't given charge of District SP to a women, the SDPO, Station House Officers (SHO's) also seems to be male dominant posts," he said.
Pertinently, the Jammu and Kashmir has several woman IPS & KPS officers, but all of them are posted at unimportant posts .
The chief minister Mehbooba Mufti who has retained the portfolio of the home ministry to herself , as per sources, is striving, to ensure that women get due representation in postings in police force.
Sources said that more posts of women officers are likely to be created in Jammu and Kashmir Police force and this is being done in bid that women come forward to join the force. |
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