Abstract
Women role has changed considerably during the last few decades and
Pakistani women are joining those professions where they could not enter in the
past. Despite this trend, women face difficulties in the form of socio-cultural
constraints to join law enforcing agencies. Women police face problems in the
police department in the form of discouragement from co-workers, senior
officials, un-conducive work environment inside police stations, lack of facilities,
strict working hours, lack of career development opportunities, discrimination and
sexual harassment. In addition, due to male dominancy and cultural values the
women has to seek the permission of their male head of the house to join police.
These problems hinder women to join police force due to which their
representation is meagre as compared to other countries.
The study suggest that in order to attract women in to police profession,
attractive packages and other incentives should be provided to newly recruited
women police. In addition, rest room with attached bath, transport facility, equal
opportunities in promotion and training should be provided. Furthermore official
and staff involved in sexual harassment should be given exemplary punishment so
that more and more women can join police department. Police women should be
appointed/transferred to the nearby duty stations so that they may not face
accessibility problems. Over all the women police department needs restructuring
in order to make it public friendly.
Sajjad Hussain, Hamid Alam, Farhat Ullah. (2020) Women Policing in Pakistan: Prospects and Challenges, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, Volume-12, Issue-2.
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