BENGALURU: “More all-women police stations will be announced in the upcoming state budget,” said Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara.
He was speaking after inaugurating the two-day training programme on ‘Gender-sensitive best practices, implementations & capacity building of police officials’ held at the city Police Commissioner’s office on Monday. “Everybody needs to be gender sensitised, not just the policemen. No city can be considered safe unless women in that city feel safe,” he said.
“The government is keen to recruit more women cops. We have reserved 20 per cent of the posts for women in all the departments,” he added.
Parameshwara said the government would also take steps to stop the immigrants from overstaying illegally. City Police Commissioner Praveen Sood and DG & IGP R K Dutta were present among others.