Women Participation in Police Force: A Study of Odisha, Jharkhand, and West Bengal

dc.contributor.authorChakraborty, Ananya
dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Mrinalini
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-13T06:21:55Z
dc.date.available2024-06-13T06:21:55Z
dc.date.issued2024-03
dc.description.abstractEnsuring the participation of women in the formal sector is still an uphill task. The challenge is greater when talking about recruiting more women to the police force. The challenges are undoubtedly located in the way police forces are perceived by the masses, as well as the lack of awareness of the employability factors involved in such a job. In June 2021, the Ministry of Home Affairs sent a letter to the DGP’s of all States and Union Territories reiterating one of the directions/suggestions by the “230th Report of Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs”. It even spoke of holding special recruitment drives to increase the number of women in the police force to at least to 33%. Since then more than a year has passed. The paper will give a general overview of the requirement to have more women in the police force. Thereafter it will focus on the significant international and domestic legal interventions to ensure more participation of women. The paper will then focus on only three states in eastern India, to see how far they have been able to ensure/ encourage the representation of women in the police force. The paper will basically argue that apart from the government directives, it is essential to create awareness among the youth and encourage more women to join the police forces. The paper will then conclude with suggestions specifically to ensure involvement of women in the police force.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0976-3570
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/5243
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of North Bengalen_US
dc.subjectWomenen_US
dc.subjectPoliceen_US
dc.subjectAccess to justiceen_US
dc.subjectHuman rightsen_US
dc.subjectEmploymenten_US
dc.titleWomen Participation in Police Force: A Study of Odisha, Jharkhand, and West Bengalen_US
dc.title.alternativeIndian Journal of Law and Justice, Vol. 15, No. 01, March-2024, pp. 139-157en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
periodical.editorBandyopadhyay, Rathin
periodical.issueNumber1
periodical.nameIndian Journal of Law and Justice
periodical.pageEnd157
periodical.pageStart139
periodical.volumeNumber15

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