PATNA: The state has no less than seven girls IPS officers on field accountability at present. Of them, Garima Malik of the 2006 batch is the senior maximum and Lipi Singh from the 2016 batch is the youngest.
Most of those officers, who talked to IdealNews over the phone at the eve of the International Women’s Day on Thursday, shared a commonplace feeling that the society nonetheless appears to be like at them with bias and pre-conceived notion.
Malik, at the moment posted as Patna SSP, said despite the fact that she did not ever face any discrimination while discharging duties, there are some other folks within the society who nonetheless doubt features of women officers.
“It takes time for society to just accept a lady officer. However, the fashion is changing speedy. Women in uniform have proved again and again that they don't lag behind their male counterparts on the subject of conducting tricky duties,” Malik said.
Samastipur SP Harpreet Kaur, another lady IPS officer of 2009 batch, said deployment of women officers on visitors and different duties creates a deep impact at the society.
Barh ASP Lipi Singh, however, said Bihar was nonetheless a male dominated state. “Nobody expects us to behavior raids at night time. When we accomplish that, other folks wonder,” she said, including girls police officers too had been capable of dealing with tricky assignments.
“I'm the first lady police officer in Barh. I used to really feel unhealthy when other folks doubted my features. However, issues have changed now,” she said.
Most of those officers, who talked to IdealNews over the phone at the eve of the International Women’s Day on Thursday, shared a commonplace feeling that the society nonetheless appears to be like at them with bias and pre-conceived notion.
Malik, at the moment posted as Patna SSP, said despite the fact that she did not ever face any discrimination while discharging duties, there are some other folks within the society who nonetheless doubt features of women officers.
“It takes time for society to just accept a lady officer. However, the fashion is changing speedy. Women in uniform have proved again and again that they don't lag behind their male counterparts on the subject of conducting tricky duties,” Malik said.
Samastipur SP Harpreet Kaur, another lady IPS officer of 2009 batch, said deployment of women officers on visitors and different duties creates a deep impact at the society.
Barh ASP Lipi Singh, however, said Bihar was nonetheless a male dominated state. “Nobody expects us to behavior raids at night time. When we accomplish that, other folks wonder,” she said, including girls police officers too had been capable of dealing with tricky assignments.
“I'm the first lady police officer in Barh. I used to really feel unhealthy when other folks doubted my features. However, issues have changed now,” she said.
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