Daily Times

KARACHI: The National Police Bureau (NPB) organized a one day meeting with the members of the Board of Directors of the Women Police Forum (WPF).

The meeting was attended by the women members from all provinces, GB, AJK and ICT. They shared their concerns and challenges in a resource constraint environment that needs for a gender policy.

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

The 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. These activities will be implemented with Gender Crime Cell and the gender team of the phase III of gender responsive policing.

The key decisions include the need for a transformative leadership within police service; data for decision making and effective working of lady complain units to effectively address crimes against women.

The Director General of the NPB, Mr.Iqbal Mehmood Khan, as chair, reassured his personal and organizational commitment towards increasing recruitment, retention and promotion of women in police by adopting the principles of gender just policing.