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Precautions of Arresting Women's |
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While making arrest of a woman submission to custody should
be presumed unless circumstances to the contrary exist.
There should be no occasion for a male Police Officer to
touch her person. It is therefore advisable whenever it is
proposed to arrest a female, women police should be
employed.
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Arrest of women should as far as possible during night times
be avoided unless it is inevitable.
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Bail may be granted where the offence for which the arrest
is made is not of a serious nature. The SHO may exercise his
discretion in non-bail able offences to release a woman
arrestee on bail.
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Whenever a woman is arrested, the services of women Police
Officers should be utilized for guarding and escorting her.
When interrogation of the arrested woman is done by a male
Police Officer the relation or woman Police Officer should
be present. If a Woman Police Officer herself is conducting
the interrogation, the presence of a woman relative may not
be necessary.
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The existence of women police stations does not absolve the
police as a whole of its duties in this respect. There is no
bar either to post men police officers to women police
stations, except that it is necessary, that more women
police officers than men are posted in those units.
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