ISLAMABAD: National Police Bureau (NPB) is committed to recruiting and promoting women in police by adopting the principles of gender just policing.

This was reiterated by the Director General NPB Iqbal Mehmood Khan while addressing the board of directors of Women Police Forum (WPF) here on Wednesday at NPB, a press release said.

Hosted by NPB, the event was attended by the women members from all provinces, Gilgit-Baltistan, AJK and Islamabad, it stated, adding that they shared their concerns and challenges in a resource constraint environment.

WPF also developed its next quarter’s plan that revolves around key activities like social media advocacy, data collection on gender sensitive indicators and creating a mentor’s forum to enhance their own skills and promote gender responsive policing, it stated, adding that these activities would be implemented with gender crime cell and the gender team of the phase III of gender responsive policing.

USIP, in collaboration with NPB, is doing a series of media outreach activities to build greater trust between the citizens and police, it stated, adding that some of the video clips from the said series were also shared with the forum to seek their insights and feedback.

The key decisions taken today included the need for a transformative leadership within police service and effective working of lady complaint units to address crimes against women, it added.

Published in Dawn, February 23rd, 2017