Women police constables are doing a better job of investigating crimes

Aurangabad, June 29:

A pink squad has been set up to investigate women-related crimes without restricting women police to wireless sets, CCTNS or office work. In addition to patrolling on two-wheelers and four-wheelers, female police officers were assigned the responsibility of beat marshals, said K M Mallikarjuna Prasanna special inspector general of police, Aurangabad.

K M Prasanna further said, today, 207 women police constables in the Aurangabad division are working on par with male officers and more efficiently. If women are given a chance, they will make the most of it. Today in every field women are seen working shoulder to shoulder with men. Women and men who join the police force are recruited through the same recruitment process. But because they are women, their efficiency was not being used. They were assigned to work in the police station, handle wireless sets or to work on the CCTNS system. He added that during a visit to a police station, a female police constable was found to have carried out a thorough investigation into the crime. Later a pink squad of women police constables and constables from Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed and Osmanabad districts was formed. They were entrusted with the responsibility of investigating crimes against women. The pink squads are fulfilling this responsibility perfectly. When they do not have a criminal investigation, they have been instructed to go to schools and colleges to create awareness against sexual harassment and to whom to report the abuse. Women police were assigned the responsibility of marshal. For this, women constables were given training to drive vehicles.

Mokshada Patil, superintendent of Aurangabad rural police, launched the 'Abhinna' initiative to create awareness among college and school children on gender. It is hoped that the good results of this commendable initiative will be seen in the years to come, said K M Malikarjun Prasanna.