Question: Recently the 7th National Conference on Women in Police was held at-
(a) Hyderabad
(b) Lucknow
(c) Gurgaon
(d) New Delhi
Ans (c)
Related facts:
- The three day (Jan 6- 8, 2016) 7th National Conference on Women in Police was held at CRPF Academy, Kadarpur, Gurgaon.
- Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the 7th National Conference on Women in Police.
- The theme of this Conference was “Capacity Building and Leadership”.
- The sub themes were Role of Women in Conflict Resolution; Work and Life Balance; Creating Gender-Sensitive Work Infrastructure and Equipment; and Strategies to handle human trafficking.
- In this conference Shri Rajnath Singh said that the MHA will implement 33% implementation in CRPF and CISF to begin with and 15% in border guarding forces such as BSF, SSB & ITBP.
- Kerala was the first Indian state to have women in the police force.
- The first women inducted into the then Travancore Royal Police in 1933.
- Thereafter recruitment of women into the police in other states began only after independence. In 1981, women accounted for 0.4% of the total police in the country.
- Recently the number of women in Police increased gradually and it was 6.11% in 2014.
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