Committee asks ministry to ensure numbers enhanced up to 33 per cent
A parliamentary panel has found that women personnel constitute only a little over 9 per cent of the Delhi police force and as-ked the Union home ministry to ensure that their numbers are enhanced up to 33 per cent.
The department-related parliamentary standing committee on home affa-irs said that the set objective of enhancing the representation of the women in the Delhi police to 33 per cent should be achi-eved within a time frame.
“The committee notes that as on date, the representation of women in the Delhi police is 9.27 per cent only. However, on March 20, 2015, Government of India has approved reservation of 33 per cent for women horizontally and in each category (SC, ST, OBC and others) in direct recruitment in non-gazetted posts from constable to sub-inspector in the police forces of all Union Territories, including the Delhi police,” the committee observed.
The panel noted the steps taken by the Delhi police after December 2012 gangrape to curb crimes against women, including instilling confidence in girls through various gender sensitisation programmes and propagating fear of the law among sexual offenders. “However, the incidents of crimes against women have a disheartening trend, be it incident of recent murder case of Anand Parvat or the alleged molestation of an American citizen. The committee, therefore, feels that there is a need for sensitisation programmes on behaviour towards women,” it said.
The standing committee, meanwhile, also said that the Delhi police must ensure, through the education department of the Delhi government, that all schools designate one tea-cher as road safety coordinator so that regular road safety programmes are organised for raising awareness among children in this regard.
