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| Only 3% women in police force in JK | | No room for females at top | | Early Times Report
Srinagar Sept 7: Police services across the world is seen to be the bastions of masculinity. Women began to be employed in the police only in the early twentieth century in very small numbers. Progress was slow in the decades that followed. Even today, women are still under represented in policing across the world. The figures reveal that four countries examined are significantly behind other parts of the world - developing and developed. The condition in J&K vis a vis women in police force is very bad and is one of such states after Assam and Meghalaya where there are very less number of women in Police force.
Recent research in developed countries indicates that the percentage of women in the police in developing countries remains at or below one quarter, with much lower numbers in supervisory ranks. Internationally, lack of consistent, complete, and contemporary data on the trends and present numbers of women in police poses a challenge to tracking progress and accuracy. The legacy of policing across South Asia is steeped in colonialism and this endures. Often referred to as "regime policing", its prime function was to act always as an instrument of force on behalf of the regime in power. It was expected to be muscular and macho in defence of an alien power. Its ideological moorings were antithetical to the values of the modern democratic state. It was never expected to be representative of the hugely diverse populations of its country.
Presently policing remains colonial in law and structure. Apart from the Maldives, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh continue to be governed by the Police Act of 1861. An uprising by Indian soldiers in 1857 spurred the British to create a highly hierarchical and militaristic police force based on the Irish constabulary model. Provisions for women in police are entirely absent from the 1861 legislation, which is unsurprising given its heritage.
The crimes which are experienced predominantly by females like - sexual assault and gender-based violence in particular - the police are a fundamental and usually the first link in the access to justice. If women do not report crimes to the police, then such crimes are not recognised or dealt with through the formal justice system. While there may be myriad reasons why women do not report such crimes, one factor is undoubtedly the gender composition and responsiveness of the police and this is recognised in the 2011 UN Women report.
Each of India's 29 states has its own police force, for which recruitment is largely done by the state government. At the Central level, there is the Indian Police Service (IPS), an all -India service recruited, trained and managed by the central government. IPS officers fill the management and supervisory ranks of state police forces. Policing in the 7 Union Territories, including Delhi, is administered by the central government. Structurally, the police force in a state is mainly organised into two wings - the Civil Police and the Armed Police. The central government also maintains several Central Police Armed Forces who each have specific mandates and can be deployed to assist state governments when needed.
A report released recently by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) which conducted extensive research in some south Asian countries like India , Pakistan , Bangladesh and Maldives says that in Jammu & Kashmir state only 3 % women are part of the 72,000 huge police force in J&K. This means we have mere 2200 women in J&K who are part of Jammu & Kashmir police (executive and armed). Since from the day J&K police was established we never had a woman DGP in J&K nor we had any female zone IGP , range DIG , or SSP (district incharge) . The authorities in J&K are even reluctant to handover charge of a police station to a woman and that is why we see not a single woman functioning as a full time SHO in J&K except a few in woman police stations. We organize huge debates, seminars on women empowerment but when it comes to police they are totally disempowered by all the successive regimes. Due to absence of police officers at thana level crimes against women are not registered in good numbers as female folk find it difficult to talk about an attempt to rape or even rape with a male police official. |
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