Domestic and Departmental Challenges of Women Police in Pakistan
According to the recent census, Punjab
is the most populous province with around 48% female from the 120 million population.
However, the total strength of Punjab Police is almost 205000 and only 4500
female Police officers are available, which is nothing than a drop in the
bucket.
According to the ratio, there is
only one female Police official for every 12,200 women in Punjab
province. Although, a large number of female police officials are inducted in the
department since 2014 with the 15% quota of the female. This situation raises many
issues for in-service female Police officials, significant of them are
mentioned here.
- Female Police officials are less in number, only one or two female officials are posted in male Police Station. They have to work round the clock to perform their official duties.
- All male Police stations don’t have female police officials, so they get duty from the Women Police Station in Rawalpindi district. However, the ladies officers are just drop in the ocean and their presence is necessary on all duty points.
- Female Police officials have to look after their kids, doing domestic chores and managing their departmental duties, without having rest and time for keeping themselves fit and healthy.
- Women Police Station in Rawalpindi district lacks all facilities necessary for performing official duties like the daycare centre, PS Vehicle, as well as, the poor condition of the building of PS Women. These issues create hindrance in performing their official duties and reaching in-time on duty points specifically during the lockdown periods due to COVID-19.
- Mostly female officials try to skip from official responsibilities due to their domestic issues like minor kids, absence of transport facilities and the patriarchal nature of the society in the form of the poor relationship with their husbands.
- Most of their in-laws' families always welcome finical assistance in the form of salaries, but refuse to co-operate with them at domestic level management, which is the base of family life
For improving these poor working
conditions and unfriendly environment, it is necessary that all the high officials
must give them an ear and keep in view their departmental and domestic duties due
to the so-called patriarchal nature of society.
Female Police officials should
be facilitated with a comfortable and peaceful professional environment in the
form of standard PS building, furniture and stationery, up to date PS vehicle
and cooperative male staff.
After addressing these challenges, a soft,
professional and healthy image of female police will be emerged, which is the
need of the hour to build public confidence on the Punjab Police in Pakistan.
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