Only 5% of cops in state are women

At a time when gender parity is the war cry, Karnataka, with a population of over 3 crore women, has only 3,682 women police personnel. They constitute just 5.11% of the 72,000 police personnel in the state, according to the data of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). If the present situation is bleak, any hope of bridging the gap in the any hope of bridging the gap in the near future is only dimmer. For, the current recruitment system in the state has only 20%...