The women’s wing of Cheetah Police which would be launched in the provisional State Capital Dehradun on March 8, marking the International Women’s Day, would be taken to other districts of the State too in the coming days, said the State Director-General of Police MA Ganapathy while talking to ‘The Pioneer’ on Thursday. He further said that the district police chiefs have been directed to appoint at least one woman sub-inspector or inspector as the police station in-charge or police post in-charge. He exhorted the women police personnel to come forward to take up responsible posting of in-charge of police posts and police stations.
The police sources say that the women sub-inspectors/inspectors are not very eager to take charge of police stations and police posts as the in-charges.
Asked whether this is true, a woman sub-inspector answered in the affirmative. “True we are not willing. This is because we, generally, have to take care of the domestic chores aside from discharging our official responsibilities. If we take up postings of station or post in-charges we have to spend around the whole day on duty, something that would deter us from taking care of our children and the elderly. However, if the department agrees to provide us with residential facilities, attendants and the like we might be interested,” she said.
Things were the same regarding the Cheetah Police with the women constables remaining reluctant. However, SSP Sweety Aggarwal persuaded a section of them to shed their reluctance. Moved by her appeal, 24 women constables expressed their readiness to join the force in the city. They were promptly inducted at the behest of the SSP. They are now being trained. The training that started on March 1 and would continue till March 6 would involve Self- defence, vehicle training, use of wireless handsets, behavioral training and others.