Crimes against Woman cell of Madhya Pradesh Police is sensitive towards handling the crimes against women and a dedicated women’s helpline 1090 separately exists to provide help and security to the women, said Additional Director of General (Crime against Woman) Aruna Mohan Rao at the inauguration of 16-day ‘Against Gender-based Violence’ campaign on Thursday.
Sixteen-day campaign ‘Against Gender-based Violence’ was inaugurated on Thursday, which was November 25 and is observed as Elimination of Violence against Women Day and would be continued till Human Rights Day on December 10.
One day interaction programme with women and girls by Sangini Gender Resource Center Bhopal and Sehore was organised to start the campaign, which marked the start of 16-day programme ‘Against Gender-based Violence’.
On November 25, 1960, three Mirabal sisters were killed by dictator of Dominican Republic for their activities against the dictator and in remembrance of the incident, Elimination of Violence against Women Day is observed. In December 1999, UNO General Assembly declared November 25 as Elimination of Violence against Women Day.
IG Bhopal Yogesh Choudhary said that police are committed towards safety and security of women. Addl SP (Traffic) Shalini Dixit shared the working of the traffic system to provide safe and secure commuting of women in public transport.
SP (Dial 100) Amit Saxena informed about the Dial 100 service which can react on the complaint within three minutes and reach to help the complainants at the earliest. Queries of women and girls were solved by the senior police officers at the programme.