Centre urging states to extend girls’s share in police forces to 33%

The Rajya Sabha was knowledgeable on Wednesday that whereas the Centre has repeatedly suggested states to spice up the participation of girls within the police power to 33 %, their precise power as of January 1, 2022, remained 11.75%. In a reply furnished on the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, the union residence ministry knowledgeable the home that the centre has written to the governments of states and union territories six occasions within the final ten years, asking them to extend the share of girls in police to 33%.

According to Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suggested all particular person states to spice up the illustration of girls police to 33% of the overall power in advisories dated April 22, 2013, May 21, 2014, May 12, 2015, June 21, 2019, June 22, 2021, and April 13, 2022.

“According to data compiled by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), as on January 1, 2022, the actual strength of women police personnel is 11.75 per cent at all India level,” he mentioned in a written reply to a query by BJP MP Radha Mohan Das Agarwal. The Rajya Sabha MP wished to know whether or not 33% of posts in police forces have been reserved for girls, the related govt order on this regard, and the proportion of girls working in police forces in numerous states and UTs in India.

The reply by the house ministry acknowledged that as per knowledge compiled by the Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D), as on 01.01.2022, the precise power of girls police personnel is 11.75% in any respect India degree. It additional acknowledged that as ‘Police’ is a State topic, it’s primarily the duty of the State Governments/UTs to extend the variety of girls personnel in police forces.

According to the minister, it has been urged of all state governments to transform any open positions for sub-inspectors and constables into new positions for girls. In order to have a girls’s help desk open round the clock, every police station must have at the least three feminine sub-inspectors and ten feminine police constables, he acknowledged.

“The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued advisories dated 22.04.2013, 21.05.2014, 12.05.2015, 21.06.2019, 22.06.2021 and 13.04.2022 to all the State Governments to increase the representation of women police to 33% of the total strength. All the State Governments have been requested to create additional posts of women Constables/Sub-Inspectors by converting the vacant posts of Constables/Sub-Inspectors. The aim is that each police station should have at least 3 women Sub-Inspectors and 10 women police Constables, so that a women help desk is manned round the clock,” the reply in Rajya Sabha mentioned.

According to the house ministry reply, Ladakh (28.3 %) has the best proportion of feminine cops, adopted by Andhra Pradesh (21.7 %), Chandigarh (21.6 %), and Bihar (21.2 %). The states having the bottom %age of feminine cops embrace Jammu & Kashmir (3.2 %), Tripura (5.29 %), and Meghalaya (5.9 %). The share of girls in police forces on the nationwide degree is 11.75%.