JOIN USWomen travelling late night on Delhi Metro need not worry about getting public transport.
The CISF, which is guarding the facility, is now asking its specially deployed women personnel to assist female commuters to get auto-rickshaw and other safe modes of transport to their destinations. The force deploys around 4,800 personnel, including women, at 136 Metro stations.
CISF women personnel trained in Filipino martial art – Pekiti Tirsia Kali – have been deployed for security of women commuters. They randomly check and de-board male passengers.
CISF Director General Arvind Ranjan said the women personnel have been deployed in select stations, which are in secluded localities, to help women passengers.
“Our women personnel even note down the number of the auto or other vehicles in which the women passengers were seen off by them,” Ranjan told a press conference.
He was of the view that measures like noting down the number creates a psychological impact in the minds of people who are ferrying women late in the night as well as a sense of security among female passengers.
With increase in number of passengers in the Metro, Ranjan also said CISF is relying more CCTV coverage to detect any “unusual behaviour”.
He said using CCTV surveillance, they detected around 500 cases of people walking on tracks. The CISF personnel also detected about 180 instances where people were noticed to be in a disturbed state of mind.
Giving statistics about its activities in Delhi Metro, he said under ‘Operation Kali’ and other special drives, 9,124 passengers were de-boarded from coaches reserved for women in 2014 and another 529 in January this year.
Seventy-one operations were conducted to apprehend and drive out pickpockets wherein 354 pickpockets were apprehended last year while another 28 caught in six operations in January.