Under the Regime of Woman Chief Minister
Out 215 Police Stations in J & K, Only Seven Headed by Lady Officers
Jammu, 22/Feb/2017: Out of total 215 Police Station spread across 22 civil districts (25 Police districts) in Jammu and Kashmir State, only 7 police stations are headed by female officers and rest of 208 are commanded by male Station House Officers. Out of these 7 Police Stations headed by lady cops, 6 are all women police stations, means factually only one general police station is being headed by a female officer. None of the 25 police districts is headed by any lady officer.
In addition to this, on the question of representation to lady police officers on other significant positions in the state only two armed police Battalions (IRP) are headed by female commandants other than this Jammu and Kashmir government have assigned the task of managing traffic in both the capital cities of the state i.e. Srinagar and Jammu to two lady cops. Besides that no other significant post is held by and lady police officer in the entire state which itself is headed by a women chief minister.
The information in this regard was provided by the Jammu and Kashmir Police Headquarters in response to an RTI application of RTI activist Raman Sharma wherein he has filed RTI with the state police department to know about the deputation of lady officers on the significant and important positions.
In his RTI plea filed in the month of January 2017, Sharma had asked for copy of any specific policy/ manual or Circular governing transfer/ postings and promotions of women police at all ranks from Deputy Superintendent of Police to Constable, while responding to these queries, the Police Headquarters in their reply dated 08/02/2017 informed that there is no separate norm for postings and promotions however their transfer is governed by a general policy of transfers which is also applicable to male colleagues. Though the transfer policy regulation does not have any specific guideline for the transfers/postings of the lady cops however, General Principle Rule 4 of transfer policy document issued by the PHQ vide their order no 2615/2012 dated 21/07/2012 states that where both husband and wife are serving in the police department, they may be conveniently posted as far as possible subject to availability of the post and keeping in view the interest of the administration as well. It is pertinent to mention here that earlier also in an RTI reply, the State police had admitted that representation of women in the police department was less than 4 percent and majority of them constitute in the constabulary only. Raman Sharma has conveyed his thanks to the Public Information Officer of the Jammu and Kashmir Police Headquarters for providing him all the sought information within stipulated period of time.
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Published in Early Times, Kashmir Times, Daily Excelsior, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala Journey Line.
http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/women-police-officers/
http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=196870
https://kashmirobserver.net/2017/local-news/only-seven-woman-officers-heading-police-stations-out-215-across-jk-14997
