Home Minister G. Parameshwara on Wednesday said that the State government plans to increase the share of women in Karnataka State Police from the existing 8% to 25% in due course.
Addressing a seminar on ‘violence against women’, Dr. Parameshwara said that the government is committed to ensure safety of women and has sanctioned six women police stations across the city taking their number to eight. To provide assistance to the aggrieved visitors, two women counsellors have been appointed at each of these police stations, he added. The department should ensure that all women police stations are headed by a woman officer but due to shortage of women officers many station do not have such facilities. However, this will be corrected in the coming days, he said.
Elaborating on the measures taken to ensure the safety of women under Safe City Project, Dr. Parameshwara said that the aim is to make Bengaluru a safe city where 7,500 CCTV cameras, 280 Hoysala vehicles, and the entire city police force work round the clock to ensure the safety and maintain law and order. The 112 response system developed on a par with the London Metropolitan Police model started with a response time of 20 minutes and has now improved to seven minutes, he added.
