Nagpur: The Second Capital City of Maharashtra has achieved a historical feat as six Police Stations in Nagpur are being manned by Women Police Inspectors. It is a fitting tribute to International Women’s Day being celebrated on March 8.
The Women of Substance are: Shubhangi Deshmukh (Bajaj Nagar Police Station), Lalita Todase (Wadi Police Station), Trupti Sonavane (Tehsil Police Station), Vidya Jadhav (Pratap Nagar Police Station), Vaijayanti Mandawdhare (Mankapur Police Station) and Ashalata Khapre (Wathoda Police Station).
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With this feat, Nagpur has gone ahead of Pune in the number of women cops as in-charges. Pune city with 32 police stations has three senior women in-charges. Nagpur with 33 police stations has now six women in-charge. Mumbai, having more than 90 police stations, has a dozen women in-charges, followed by Nagpur. Thane has only one police station with a woman cop as in-charge while Aurangabad has two.
In addition, Nagpur has Aswati Dorje as the first Joint Commissioner of Police.
In almost half a dozen police stations, women are second-in-command as senior inspector, crime, who had led from front in critical situations. Inspector Amita Jaipurkar had worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Parag Pote to close down Ganga Jamuna.
According to reports, the Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar, who had initiated the ‘Women’s era’ for Nagpur police, allotted the police stations to women cops based on merit and their abilities. Women PIs are competent and at times better when it comes to crime prevention, detection, man management and crisis handling, he said.
According to Joint CP Dorje, she has found 99.9 % of women cops to be sincere. “They are active listeners, remain calm and don’t get stressed in crisis,” she said and added that women cops often prove better in winning trust of a victim which helps in the probe.
Senior PI Khapre, who had rescued five minor girls last month, said she had led 18 raids against bootleggers, half a dozen gamblers and arrested two bookies. “My family stays in Pune. When I miss my children, we bring them to Nagpur but my focus is always on the job,” she said.
Another Senior PI Mandawdhare (Mankapur PS) had made several detections in the last few months, recovering arms and weapons. She was probably the first women in-charge of Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad.
After becoming the Police Station In-charge, Mandawdhare also roped in Assistant PI Mangala Mokashe as the first women in-charge of detection wing for a police station.
