700 women help desks to be set up for prevention of crime against women

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Seven hundred women help desks will be set up for the prevention of crime against woman in the country, DGP Vivek Johri discussed with the field officers through video conferencing (VC) about the new arrangement. The desk will be formed in three categories. More police officers and employees will be deployed in police stations where the number of crime against woman is high.

Orders have been issued to all the districts from the women's cell which would launched on 8 March (National Women's Day) in all the police stations. The 700 Women's Desk will be known as the URJA Help Desk. This desk is divided into A, B and C categories based on the number of female offenses.

DGP Johri discussed with concerned officials of all the districts in this regard. The desks in the police station area of more than 75 woman crimes occurring in a year will be placed in A category. A female sub-inspector, two head constables and four constables will be deployed here. In a year, on 40 to 75 women offenses, the desk will be placed in B category, there will be four posts of women sub-inspector or assistant sub-inspector and four posts of head constable or constable. In the C category, there will be a desk where less than 40 complaints come every year and have three posts of women sub-inspector or head constable and constable. The woman in-charge of the police station concerned will be in charge of the desk.

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