POLICE WOMEN

Police Women

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Women in the police force have been portrayed as being able to bring a number of changes in the sector traditionally dominated by men. Therefore, the introduction of women to the police force contributed to a number of changes which were evident. These changes therefore implied an improvement in service delivery of the force previously dominated by men. This paper thus seeks to highlight the contribution of women to the police force, the challenges they face and continue to face as well as recommend and encourage the women who would like to be part of the force in future.

The first contribution is that women have had an impact in the reinforcement of investigation on issues to deal with sexual harassment whose victims more often than not turn out to be people of the female sex. This has been facilitated by the fact that women indeed understand the plights associated with such forms of violence. Second is that, women did play a role in improving the image of the police through methods of Public relations practices. This aspect has been improved through TV shows as well as taking programs to schools just to show the community that members of the police force are no different from other members of the society.

Overall is the fact that women officers have helped address the plight of women, particularly the young women, children as well as wayward girls. Men prior the introduction of women found it a challenge when it came to dealing with these groups due to the emotions that accompanied different scenarios. Therefore, these issues have been well addressed by the women.

It is important to acknowledge that indeed women face a number of challenges, atrocities as well as indignities ranging from ethnic and gender discrimination, sexual harassment from their fellow male officers as well as violent publics, prejudices related to one’s sexual orientation, male chauvinism which portrays the male as superior among other challenges. Overall, is the fact that there have been complains from the wives of male officers. Their grievance is that they are not comfortable with their husbands spending 8hours a day in patrol cars with the female officers. A number of these challenges are however being addressed.

Women, for their contribution in the improvement of service delivery in the police force should be encouraged to join the forces in more numbers. At the end of the day, every citizen wants quality services. When it comes to matters of gender equality in the workplace, they should keep in mind that what can only be achieved is gender equity at least for this moment.

Women police have improved service delivery in the force, particularly when it comes to dealing with members of their sexual orientation. However, they have faced a number of challenges on matters of sexual and general harassment, but women should be encouraged to join the police force because of the reforms accompanied by their introduction.