All 166 Delhi
constables
in the backdrop of gang rape of a girl in the
national
capital.
A special drive for recruiting female
constables and
officers
and appointing more women personnel in police
stations
will also be undertaken soon to instill confidence
among
women.
"I have signed the file for appointing
two woman
sub-inspectors
and seven woman constables in every police
station in Delhi
reporters
here today.
The Home Minister's order comes in the
backdrop of public
outrage
over the gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl in the
capital on
December 16. The girl died in a hospital in
around
83,000 of which nearly 6,000 are women personnel.
The special task force, which was
constituted to review
the
functioning of the Delhi Police on a regular basis, also
decided at
a meeting held here today to increase the women
personnel's
strengthen in Delhi Police.
The government has already taken a series
of measures for
security of
women in Delhi
the
anti-rape law for proving speedier justice and enhanced
punishment
for criminal involved in sexual assault cases.
It has also appointed a Commission of
Inquiry to find out
various
aspects of the shocking gang rape incident, identify
the lapses,
if any, on the part of the police or any other
authority
or person that contributed to the occurrence.
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