Delhi police to recruit outside city as it looks to change
23 August 2013
The Times of India writes that New Delhi police’s decision to cast its recruiting net beyond the city itself is part of the reaction to the much-publicised gang rape and murder of a student in the city late last year.
Fri, 23 Aug 2013
The Times of India writes that New Delhi police’s decision to cast its recruiting net beyond the city itself is part of the reaction to the much-publicised gang rape and murder of a student in the city late last year.
A story on the newspaper's website today notes: “Following a 15-year wait, Delhi Police – in search of a cosmopolitan identity to gel with the ethos of a capital with lakhs [hundreds of thousands in Indian English] of floating migrants – has decided to set up recruitment centres outside the city”, the idea being that a police force more representative of the city’s population would better serve the nation’s capital.
The Times says the revival of out-of-town recruitment centres after they were scrapped in 1998 is “being seen as a fallout” of the incident, given the decision to start up a costly initiative in a time of economic slump.
Delhi Police is visiting eight states – six of these located far from New Delhi in the south, east and north-east of the country. The paper suggests that previous recruitment efforts had seen internal migrants from certain areas of the country hired in disproportionate number.
A “source from outer district” comments to the Times: "Getting women personnel has become a major hurdle. These cops are often guilty of passing easy judgements on women. We do train them, but changing years of mental blocks takes time.”
In January this year not long after the crime, which provoked national and international outcry and debate, one UK-based recruiter whose agency has an office in New Delhi told Recruiter that the safety of female staff was already a high priority for himself and other employers in the city.
The Times of India writes that New Delhi police’s decision to cast its recruiting net beyond the city itself is part of the reaction to the much-publicised gang rape and murder of a student in the city late last year.
A story on the newspaper's website today notes: “Following a 15-year wait, Delhi Police – in search of a cosmopolitan identity to gel with the ethos of a capital with lakhs [hundreds of thousands in Indian English] of floating migrants – has decided to set up recruitment centres outside the city”, the idea being that a police force more representative of the city’s population would better serve the nation’s capital.
The Times says the revival of out-of-town recruitment centres after they were scrapped in 1998 is “being seen as a fallout” of the incident, given the decision to start up a costly initiative in a time of economic slump.
Delhi Police is visiting eight states – six of these located far from New Delhi in the south, east and north-east of the country. The paper suggests that previous recruitment efforts had seen internal migrants from certain areas of the country hired in disproportionate number.
A “source from outer district” comments to the Times: "Getting women personnel has become a major hurdle. These cops are often guilty of passing easy judgements on women. We do train them, but changing years of mental blocks takes time.”
In January this year not long after the crime, which provoked national and international outcry and debate, one UK-based recruiter whose agency has an office in New Delhi told Recruiter that the safety of female staff was already a high priority for himself and other employers in the city.
