Delhi Police to focus on safety of women
By IANSThursday, January 6, 2011
NEW DELHI - Protection of women in the national capital is being increasingly focused on and more women police officers are being deployed for patrolling, Delhi Police said Thursday.
“There are three women deputy commissioners in three districts, and four women SHOs in different police stations. We will increase the number,” Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta said at Delhi Police’s annual press conference.
The focus on women follows increasing incidents of rape reported last year, including the gangrape of a BPO employee from the northeast.
Gupta said in order to give more protection to women on the university campus, the Morris Nagar police station will be renamed North Campus police station and a police station will also be set up for the South Campus of the Delhi University.
“Women police officers will be there in the patrolling vans outside women’s colleges,” he said. “A women’s help desk will be at all police stations and women officers will be there.”
Gupta said that more women officers will be deployed at the beats and checking in city buses will be done specially in the mornings and evenings.
