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Friday, May 13, 2005

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Call for `women desks' at all police stations

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Concerned over the recent increase in crime against women in the Capital, the National Commission for Women has asked the Delhi police to set up "mahila desks" at every police station to make it easier for women in distress to approach the police.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, the chairperson of NCW Girija Vyas said: "The police have promised that these desks will be set up within the week. The atmosphere of insecurity that exists that Delhi is not safe for women is quite valid. It has become a cosmopolitan city, but the attitudes have not changed. The police have also agreed to put up a map in colleges and schools asking girls to dial 100 if they need help, along with the numbers of non-government organisations and the nearest police stations.

"Pointing out the "gaps" in way the police went about tracking the car in the recent incident in which a college girl was criminally assaulted by a group of men in a car, Ms. Vyas stated: "If the police had sealed off the route in the other directions instead of only concentrating on one way, it might have made it easier to catch the culprits. There seems to be a pattern in the way crimes occur. These people drop off the victim close to where she was picked up. If the police had not only looked for a `Santro', it might have helped."

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