Uttar Pradesh women get phone helpline power
16 Nov 2012 7:47 AM IST
The Uttar Pradesh Police Thursday launched the much-hyped Women’s Power phone helpline ‘1090’.
The police band played to the applause of Samajwadi party workers, as Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav inaugurated the helpline at his official residence here.
The helpline, which can be accessed from anywhere in the state, will be ‘manned’ by women police personnel. The identity of the complainants would be kept secret. In his address on the occasion, the chief minister lauded the state’s police force and said this would be his gift to his ‘sisters’ in the state, who face harassment at the hands of eve-teasers (molesters) and crank callers.
The helpline will operate from the administrative block 2 of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Samajik Pariwartan Sthal, the sprawling park built by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati near Jiamau crossing on Lohia Path here.
Yadav said he was certain that the helpline for women would go a long way in creating a sense of greater security among women.
Navneet Sikera, the Lucknow deputy inspector general of police (DIG) who stewarded the project, said the helpline was largely aimed at counselling first-time offenders; if the offences continued, police would initiate legal measures against repeat offenders.
The helpline would deal with crank calls, obscene calls, SMSes and MMSes in the first phase, while all internet-related harassment, including posting of fake profiles on social networks would be dealt with in the second phase. The third phase, Sikera said, would involve cases of harassment in public places.
The police band played to the applause of Samajwadi party workers, as Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav inaugurated the helpline at his official residence here.
The helpline, which can be accessed from anywhere in the state, will be ‘manned’ by women police personnel. The identity of the complainants would be kept secret. In his address on the occasion, the chief minister lauded the state’s police force and said this would be his gift to his ‘sisters’ in the state, who face harassment at the hands of eve-teasers (molesters) and crank callers.
The helpline will operate from the administrative block 2 of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Samajik Pariwartan Sthal, the sprawling park built by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati near Jiamau crossing on Lohia Path here.
Yadav said he was certain that the helpline for women would go a long way in creating a sense of greater security among women.
Navneet Sikera, the Lucknow deputy inspector general of police (DIG) who stewarded the project, said the helpline was largely aimed at counselling first-time offenders; if the offences continued, police would initiate legal measures against repeat offenders.
The helpline would deal with crank calls, obscene calls, SMSes and MMSes in the first phase, while all internet-related harassment, including posting of fake profiles on social networks would be dealt with in the second phase. The third phase, Sikera said, would involve cases of harassment in public places.
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