Military Police Induction Training Starts For First Women Batch: Army Chief

 

Army Chief Gen M M Naravane on Saturday announced that the training of the first batch of 100 women soldiers for induction into military police has started from January 6.

As per reports, the Army last year began the process of inducting women in the military police, nearly two years after then Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said women will be recruited in the force.

The then Army chief Rawat had earlier said that the Army was looking at inducting women soldiers and the process would start with the induction of women into military police corps.

The decision to induct women soldiers had been taken with an aim to improve representation of women in the armed forces.

At present, women are allowed in select areas such as medical, legal, educational, signals and engineering wings of the Army.

A statement from a top-level official, said that women will be inducted in a graded manner to eventually comprise 20% of total Corps of Military Police and their role will include policing cantonments and army establishments, preventing breach of rules and regulations by soldiers, maintaining movement of soldiers, as well as logistics during peace and war, and extending aid to civil police whenever required.