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KPK police develop action plan to improve women strength in force
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have developed an action plan to improve strength of women in police. This was disclose in one-day Woman Police Network (WPN) organised by the Gender Responsive Policing Project in collaboration with the National Police Bureau and a German (GIZ) held here in Peshawar on Monday. Additional IGP Elite Force Tariq Javed chaired the fist session. Inspector Investigation Shahzadi Naushad presented her paper on Woman Police Network (WPN) in which she highlighted the establishment of WPN, trend at the international level, its basic purpose, structure, standard of selection of the members of the board and its responsibilities. While, SHO Woman Police Station Peshawar Inspector Rozia Altaf threw light on the basic responsibilities and work of the Police Council.
Additional IG Tariq Javed while addressing the participants said that no nation can achieve the zenith of success without active participation of woman in every field of life. He informed that priorities of the project to improve gender sensitivity of police are increasing women’s recruitment, improving their capacity and role in policing and making police work environments, training and policing services responsive to the needs of both women and men.
He informed that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have developed an action plan based on the strategy to set targets for improving the strength of women in police and planned other measures to gradually achieve the strategy objective. He further informed that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have taken the initiative of setting up women desks in all police stations in the country aimed to facilitate women complainants to access police station. He said that it has brought women police into the mainstream of policing as well. DIG Investigation Muhammad Ali Babakhel while giving presentation on performance of women police stations informed that police were very hazardous profession now-a-day in our country and there was 12 police stations in the country as compared to 442 women police stations in India in which 196 women police stations are in Tamil Nadu. He expressed dissatisfaction over the working condition and performance of women police station and said that ladies police enlisted in 1990 have so far not got training and there was lack of coordination between recruitment centre and training centre.
He maintained that there was no physical instructor in 23 women institutions in the country and only 11 law instructors are available in the country. He said that our women police stations are working as a transit camp and added that women police were a respected profession and we have to avoid apologetic approach towards it and have to improve its working environment and condition. He suggested that recruitment standard should be made more friendly for women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, so that they can prove its mettle to deliver to the needy people.
President of the Women Police Network Haleena Saeed conducted orientation of the participants about how to deal and provide relief to the complainant women. She asked questions from participant and sensitised them on the issue. Challenges and opportunities for women in policing and dealing with women seeking police assistance were also debated upon in different sessions and several recommendations were presented in it. A total of 40 women police officers from all over the province participated in the symposium.
KPK police develop action plan to improve women strength in force
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have developed an action plan to improve strength of women in police. This was disclose in one-day Woman Police Network (WPN) organised by the Gender Responsive Policing Project in collaboration with the National Police Bureau and a German (GIZ) held here in Peshawar on Monday. Additional IGP Elite Force Tariq Javed chaired the fist session. Inspector Investigation Shahzadi Naushad presented her paper on Woman Police Network (WPN) in which she highlighted the establishment of WPN, trend at the international level, its basic purpose, structure, standard of selection of the members of the board and its responsibilities. While, SHO Woman Police Station Peshawar Inspector Rozia Altaf threw light on the basic responsibilities and work of the Police Council.
Additional IG Tariq Javed while addressing the participants said that no nation can achieve the zenith of success without active participation of woman in every field of life. He informed that priorities of the project to improve gender sensitivity of police are increasing women’s recruitment, improving their capacity and role in policing and making police work environments, training and policing services responsive to the needs of both women and men.
He informed that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have developed an action plan based on the strategy to set targets for improving the strength of women in police and planned other measures to gradually achieve the strategy objective. He further informed that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have taken the initiative of setting up women desks in all police stations in the country aimed to facilitate women complainants to access police station. He said that it has brought women police into the mainstream of policing as well. DIG Investigation Muhammad Ali Babakhel while giving presentation on performance of women police stations informed that police were very hazardous profession now-a-day in our country and there was 12 police stations in the country as compared to 442 women police stations in India in which 196 women police stations are in Tamil Nadu. He expressed dissatisfaction over the working condition and performance of women police station and said that ladies police enlisted in 1990 have so far not got training and there was lack of coordination between recruitment centre and training centre.
He maintained that there was no physical instructor in 23 women institutions in the country and only 11 law instructors are available in the country. He said that our women police stations are working as a transit camp and added that women police were a respected profession and we have to avoid apologetic approach towards it and have to improve its working environment and condition. He suggested that recruitment standard should be made more friendly for women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, so that they can prove its mettle to deliver to the needy people.
President of the Women Police Network Haleena Saeed conducted orientation of the participants about how to deal and provide relief to the complainant women. She asked questions from participant and sensitised them on the issue. Challenges and opportunities for women in policing and dealing with women seeking police assistance were also debated upon in different sessions and several recommendations were presented in it. A total of 40 women police officers from all over the province participated in the symposium.
KPK police develop action plan to improve women strength in force
