Police to increase phone lines for distressed women

New Delhi: Taking a cue from the UP Police’s Women Power Line, the Delhi Police too now plans to increase its telephone lines to ensure that all distress calls from women are aptly answered.

Currently, Delhi Police isn’t able to get back to all the callers who call on its women’s helpline owing to space constraints and lack of telephone lines.

Following a recent visit to the control room of UP Police’s Power Line, a helpline for women facing harassment, Delhi Police’s PCR unit has decided to learn some lessons from the world’s largest police force.

“We saw that they get back to every caller who calls on 1090. But here, we aren’t able to do so since we have an old system in place. We have 10 telephone lines for women’s helpline and two telephone lines for getting back to callers.We are only able to call back a few callers and that is one area of concern,” said a senior police officer. PTI