The Sikkim government has decided to open a police station at
Ranipool that will be operated and manned exclusively by a woman police
force.
The decision to open the all-woman police station was taken by chief minister Pawan Chamling in a meeting on February 23.
Sudhakar Rao, the additional director-general of police, said: "The
state government has identified four police stations across the state
which would be operated by women. Ranipool, around 12km from here, would
be the first police station in the state to be upgraded to an all-woman
police station. The other police stations that would be upgraded are
Temi Bazaar in South, Phodong in North and Kaluk in West Sikkim."
Police stations in Sikkim currently have both men and women force.
Rao said 23 women police personnel, such as sub-inspector and
constables had been transferred from different wings of the police
department to work at the upgraded Ranipool police station.
"The women police station would be operational by the end of this month," Rao said.
Rao added that all cases related to law and order would be registered
in these police stations and would be dealt with the women force.
"There are presently 350 women working under Sikkim Police.
"Sabitri Pradhan, traffic inspector of Gangtok, would be the station
house officer (SHO) of the women's police station at Ranipool and Karma
Doma Bhutia, an inspector at Gangtok police station, would be the second
in-charge. All the police stations would be headed by women SHOs," said
Rao.
"I will take up my responsibility as the SHO with utmost sincerity and responsibility," said Sabitri.
"We have already listed the names of the women police officials and
personnel who would be deployed in the new police station," said Rao.(TT)
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