<p>Women travelling late night on Delhi Metro need not worry about getting public transport. <br /><br /></p>.<p>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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />CISF Director General Arvind Ranjan said the women personnel have been deployed in select stations, which are in secluded localities, to help women passengers.<br /><br />“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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />With increase in number of passengers in the Metro, Ranjan also said CISF is relying more CCTV coverage to detect any “unusual behaviour”.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Women travelling late night on Delhi Metro need not worry about getting public transport. <br /><br /></p>.<p>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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />CISF Director General Arvind Ranjan said the women personnel have been deployed in select stations, which are in secluded localities, to help women passengers.<br /><br />“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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />With increase in number of passengers in the Metro, Ranjan also said CISF is relying more CCTV coverage to detect any “unusual behaviour”.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br /></p>
