Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Tuesday said his Government would shortly recruit 1,000 female constables in the State.
Earlier also, the Government had recruited 1,000 woman police employees, said the Chief Minister while addressing women from the Naraingarh Assembly constituency who had called on him at his residence here.
They had come to express their gratitude for sanctioning a women’s police station in Naraingarh sub-division and a Government girls’ college for Badagarh village.
The Chief Minister urged them to encourage their daughters to join the police force.
Reiterating the commitment of the State Government to women’s safety and education, the Chief Minister said a number of steps had been taken in this direction.
Women’s colleges are being established at a distance of every 20 kilometres to provide the facility of higher education to girls in the state, he said.
Manohar lal said that women’s police stations have already been opened in every district and now the government has sanctioned such police stations in eight sub-divisions, including Naraingarh.
Earlier, in case of any problem or incident of crime, women used to hesitate to go to the police station to lodge a complaint, but now, they feel free to register their grievances at women’s police stations without any hesitation, he added.