Date:19/11/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/11/19/stories/2007111954210500.htm

Karnataka

‘Give top priority for complaints lodged by women’

Staff Correspondent

TUMKUR: Tumkur District Superintendent of Police P. Harisekaran said here on Sunday that the Tumkur police would accord top priority to complaints received from women in all the police stations in the district.

Inaugurating a one-day training camp for 61 women constables from different police stations in the district, Mr. Harisekaran said a separate section was established at each police station to receive complaints from women.

All such complaints would be processed on a priority basis and with much care and warmth. “Measures are taken to ensure that there will be no indifference in all matters related to women,” he said.

Mr. Harisekaran said that the women constables discussed the problems faced by them in performing their duties at police stations. They were promptly addressed, he added.

The training covered methods of crime detection, tackling communal tension and caste-related clashes, processing of passport applications, registering cases of unnatural deaths, and serving court summons and executing the warrants.