State director general of police MA Ganapathy launched the Women Cheetah Police wing at police lines in Dehradun on Wednesday by way of commemorating the International Women’s Day. A total of 24 women cheetah police teams comprising 48 women police personnel have been formed.
They would be deployed at 22 places in the city area while at two places in the rural area of Dehradun district. Now they would be found zipping around the areas they have been sent to on their two-wheelers to respond promptly to the emergency calls received from the aggrieved. Three women Cheetah Police teams have been deputed at Kotwali police station area while two at Cantt, three at Vasant Vihar, one at Premnagar, three each at Nehru Colony and Dalanwala, two each at Raipur, Patelnagar and Rajpur and one in Clement Town. This aside, two women Cheetah Police teams have been deputed at Rishikesh.
Following their appointment for the women wing of Cheetah Police on March 1, they were given special training for six days.
Following the flagging off, DGP said that the initiative amounted to lauding the exemplary role the women police personnel are playing to bring about quality policing. “The wing would be extended to other districts too in the coming days based on the performance of the newly launched unit,” he said. SSP Dehradun Sweety Aggarwal said that she is expecting the 48 women, trained for self- defence, weapon handling, RT Set handling and crime handling, to adequately rise to the challenge. ADGP (administration) Ashok Kumar, ADGP (law and order) Ram Singh Meena, IGs Deepam Seth, Sanjay Kumar Gunjyal and DIG Pushpak Jyoti were among others present on the occasion.