GENERAL PROBLEMS FACED BY THE WOMEN POLICE

The present study aims to have an anthropological research on women who work as police officers in Islamabad. These female officers face several social, personal, and psychological problems due to numerous reasons, including insufficient transportation and infrastructure facilities. Furthermore, they are less in number and new recruitment has also been stopped. Discriminatory behavior by low and high profile officers is also witnessed among them. Such discriminations are visible in facilities, control over transportation, and insufficient power in self-governing. These all factors are restrictions towards better performance as compared to their counterpart. Beside these the women police are incompetent to meet the challenges due to lack of physical and military training i.e. usage of weapons. In addition the women as police officers are incapable of taking independent decisions in time due to their dependency on male seniors. This research was conducted in Islamabad. In the territory of the Islamabad only one police station is operational. This police station is situated in the sector G-7 Sitara Market. Qualitative anthropological techniques were used to collect empirical data.