Haryana Director General of Police, BS Sandhu on Wednesday said that three women sub-inspectors would be appointed in each woman police station to further strengthen its functioning in the state.
“Besides, woman helpline number 1091 would be linked with Centralised monitoring system so as to ensure its monitoring at the level of police headquarters. This will help in providing immediate assistance to the women in the light of any
untoward incident,” said Sandhu while talking to the mediapersons after presiding over a meeting with supervisory officers and SHOs of all woman police stations in Panchkula near here.
He said that process for recruitment of 73 female sub-inspectors has already been started. After its completion, these police officers would be appointed in women police stations. Apart from 400 male sub inspectors, process to recruit 7000 constable including 1000 female is also going on, he added.
In reply to a question, Sandhu said that a committee of senior police officers would soon be constituted for reviewing the working system of women police stations in the state.
The senior officers would submit a report after reviewing their functioning so that working system in these police stations could be further improved as well as to ensure maintenance of law and order, said the DGP.
He said that a proposal to get funds would soon be sent to the Centre under the police modernization scheme of Union Government.
On being asked to comment on the proposed Jat reservation agitation in Jassia on June 2, the DGP said that everyone in the democracy has a right to say his word in a peaceful manner. At the same time, Haryana Police is fully capable to maintain law and order in the state, he added.
In reply to another question concerning inter-state crime control, he said that a meeting to this effect was convened recently with the states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi. We hope to get fruitful results very soon, he added.