Two exclusive vehicles with women police personnel will patrol city roads to ensure the safety of women and children. Barring the driver, ‘Chamundi Vanitha Sahayavani’ vehicles will have an all-woman police squad.
A woman assistant sub-inspector and two women head constables or police constables will work in two shifts. Interested women volunteers can accompany the vehicles upon permission from the police. According to the police, the service has been launched to help women in distress and to curb increasing cases of violence against women.
The patrol vehicles will work from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in two shifts. Schools, colleges, women’s hostels, paying guest houses, and public places such as the railway station, bus stops, temples, markets, malls, factories and other places women frequent would be covered, a note from the city police said here.
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The Mahila police will swing into action in case the women needed help or protection. The patrol vehicle will answer distress calls sent to the city control room. Minister in-charge for Mysore district V. Srinivas Prasad flagged off the vehicles on the Kote Anjaneyaswamy Temple premises at the Balarama Gate of Mysore palace on Tuesday.