KARACHI: A women and children protection desk was inaugurated at the office of DIG West Zone in Gulberg where only women police would be appointed to deal with cases of violence against women and children.
The desk was inaugurated by Sindh Inspector General of Police A.D. Khowaja.
A command and control room was also inaugurated at the same place to monitor performance of police stations and police mobiles.
Talking to media, the IG said that sexual exploitation of women and children was a heinous crime. He said it was time that citizens, instead of hiding such abuses, come forward and report it to the police so that culprits taken to task.
He pointed out that the establishment of women and children protection desk was aimed at preventing different kinds of abuses against women and children.
He said that cases pertaining to women and children would be dealt by only the women officers associated with the desk. Mr Khowaja admitted that generally male police officers did not hear grievances of women about domestic torture and abuse.
He added that the male police generally told such aggrieved women that this was “your domestic problem and try to solve it within the family”.
