Less than 1,000 senior women police officers in force: India Justice Report

The 2025 India Justice Report IJR on Tuesday has stated that Indiarsquos 203 lakh strong police force has less than 1000 women officers in senior ranks like Superintendents of Police SP and Director Generals of Police DGPIt said that the women officers in nonIPS ranks comprise just 8 per cent of the 31 lakh total officers with 90 per cent of women in police in the constabularyAccording to the report there also have been some positive developments since the last reportAround 78 percent of police stations now have Women Help Desks andthe per capita legal aid spending has nearly doubled to Rs 646The report stated that around 86 per cent of prisons now have videoconferencing facilities and women now make up 38 per cent of the judges in the district courtsIt said that out of 242 lakh women in the police force only 960 are in highranking IPS roles About 90 per cent of all women in police are in the lowest constable level and women hold just 8 per cent of officerlevel positions in police forcesNo state or union territory has met its own targets for womens reservation in the police the report saidThe India Justice Report was first initiated by Tata Trusts with the first ever ranking published in 2019 This is the fourth edition of the report in collaboration with partners including the Centre for Social Justice Common Cause Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative DAKSH TISSndashPrayas Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and How India Lives IJRrsquos data partnerThe India Justice Report a periodic report ranks Karnataka first overall with the state retaining its top spot among the 18 large and midsized states with populations of over one crore eachIt was followed by Andhra Pradesh climbing from fifth in 2022 to second Telangana 2022 ranking 3rd and Kerala 2022 ranking 6thThe report further stated that the five southern states dominated the rankings owing to better performance across the four pillars in comparison to other states Karnataka is the only state that met its caste quotas SC ST and OBC in both the police at the constabulary and officer level as well as in the district judiciaryKerala has the lowest vacancy among High Court judges whereas Tamil Nadu performs the best in prisons with one of the lowest occupancy rates 77 per cent compared to the national average of over 131 per centMaja Daruwala Chief Editor India Justice Report said ldquoAs India moves forward into a hundred years of being a democratic rule of law nation the promise of rule of law and equal rights will remain hollow unless underwritten by a reformed justice system Reform is not optional It is urgent A wellresourced responsive justice system is a constitutional imperative that must be experienced as an everyday reality available to every citizenrdquoMeanwhile Telangana and Andhra Pradesh also outperform other states particularly with regards to the police ranking 1st and 2nd on that pillar respectively the IJR statedIt said that Sikkim 2022 ranking 1st topped the table among the seven Small States with populations less than one crore each followed by Himachal Pradesh 2022 6th and Arunachal Pradesh 2022 2ndAmong other states between IJR 2022 and 2025 Bihar recorded the most improvement followed by Chhattisgarh and OdishaUttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand also performed better than 7 other states including Haryana Telangana and Gujarat on the improvement scorecard the report saidWomen in police Where are they Out of the 242835 total women in police 960 are within the IPS ranks Total 4940 DIG DG IG AIGP Adl SP ADLSP Dy Com 24322 women are within nonIPS ranks Total 310444 DySP Inspector SI and ASI 1003 DySPs are women Total 11406 DySPs Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of DySPs 133 217553 women in the Constabulary Total 17 24312 Head constables and constablesatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params