The Haryana Government has sanctioned 1,724 posts of different categories for all the 21 women police stations in the State to further strengthen them. The women police stations, established last year in the State were facing acute shortage of staff.
Finance Minister Capt. Abhimanyu on Wednesday said that each of the 21 districts have one women police station. The posts included that of 20 lady inspectors, 129 posts of lady sub inspector, 250 posts of lady assistant sub inspector, 396 posts of lady head constables, 786 posts of lady constables and 143 posts of class-IV. As per Government's data, 49,509 complaints of crimes against women were reported across the State from September 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016. Out of this, 28,839 were filed at all-women police stations. 17,939 complaints were related to domestic violence and the rest of them included rape, attempt to rape, stalking, sexual harassment and kidnapping.