Daily Excelsior: Jammu: Thursday,
February 23, 2017.
In a state
where Chief Minister is a woman, only seven lady officers were heading police
stations out of total 215 across Jammu and Kashmir. Out of total 215 Police
Station spread across 22 civil districts (25 Police districts) in Jammu and
Kashmir State, only seven police stations were headed by female officers and
rest of 208 commanded by male Station House Officers, a RTI activist here today
said.
Out of these seven Police Stations, six are
all women police stations, means factually only one general police station is
being headed by a female officer, he said adding that one of the 25 police
districts was headed by a 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) were headed by female commandants. Moreover there were only two lady officers in
the task team assigned for managing traffic in both the capital cities of the
state ie Srinagar and Jammu.
Besides this no other significant post is held
by a lady police officer in the entire state which itself is headed by a women
Chief Minister. The information was provided by the Jammu and Kashmir Police
Headquarters in response to an application of RTI activist Raman Sharma.
Sharma said that in a reply it was mentioned
that there was no separate norm for postings and promotions however their
transfer was governed by a general policy of transfers which was 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,” he added.
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 per cent and majority of them
constitute in the constabulary only.