Women in Policing Bangladesh

Journey started from

Statistics  First women police was recruited in  In 1986 the first women police joined in the officer rank (cadre service).  Total Strength of Police -1,48,343  Number of Police Satiations -615  Police population ratio –1 police is responsible to provide service to 1100 people  Total number of women police

RankFemale IGP0 Additional IGP0 DIG2 Additional DIG3 SP12 Additional SP57 Senior SP24 ASP113 Inspector65 Sub-Inspector424 ASI427 Constable5566

Key Policy initiatives  In the Strategic Plan of Bangladesh Police (BP) , targeted to recruit additional 3000 women police.(WP).By this time BP recruited more then 3000 WP. The % of WP was less then 2 % in 2007 now increased into 5.63%.  A all women Battalion was established in 2011 by BP called Armed Police Battalion. The Commandant of the Battalion is a women.  Two contingent of women police were sent to UN Peace keeping mission. In each batches there were 100 WP and the Commandant were women.  33% seats were reserved for women in the Community Policing Forums.

 In the history of BP a women police became Additional Commissioner at Dhaka Metropolitan Police.  Four women police became Assistant Commissioner.  Women Support and Investigation Unit was established Under Dhaka Metropolitan Police. The UNIT is run by all women and the head of the centre is a SP  A women police became the Office in Charge (OC) of a Police stations at Dhaka.  In 2013 a women police became the SP of a District.

Supported by PRP  A Gender Guidelines was developed by PRP and approved by BP an disseminated in all the Police Stations.  A Day-care Centre was established in Rajarbagh Police line.  Eight Victim Support Centres were established with the support of PRP.  All these VSCs are run by women police.  Memorandum of agreement was signed by 10 NGOs