Amena Begam

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Bangladesh Police Women Network

• Amena Begam
• Deputy Police Commissioner
• Chittagong Metropolitan Police
• Bangladesh Police

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Bangladesh

• Bangladesh the third largest Muslim country in
  the world and second in the region.
• Bangladeshs location with in the geo-strategic
  frontier of India
• Surrounded by India almost entirely on three
  sides except 172 miles with Myanmar in the south
  east.
• For Police background it inherits the legacy
  British Colonial heritage of Policing like the
  India and Pakistan.

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Liberation War Memorial, Dhaka
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CHINA
INDIA
INDIAN OCEAN
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134,480,000
PAKISTAN
BANGLADESH
114,080,000
INDIA
121,000,000
INDONESIA
182,570,000
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Bangladesh Police

• Bangladesh Police was formed in 1971 after the
  liberation and the service had the legacy of 200
  years historical background of Indo-Pak
  subcontinent police history.
• Bangladesh Police is a National Police.
• BD Police has 130000 members.
• 3000 women police
• Bangladesh Police has several units like District
  Police, Metropolitan Police, Criminal
  Investigation Department , Special Branch, Armed
  Police Battalion, Rapid Action Battalion,
  Industrial Police units to work under one
  National Head Quarter.

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Women in Bangladesh Police

• First Joined in 1974
• For Special Branch VIP female protection duty.
• 1976 women joined in sub Inspector rank in Dhaka
  Metropolitan Police
• 1986 first women in Supervisory level joined.
• 1988, 2nd batch joined in supervisory level.
• 1999 onward Police women are recruited every year
  in supervisory level and the number is 120 ASP
  now in Bangladesh Police.

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Three Entry levels in Bangladesh Police

• Constable of Police
• Sub Inspector
• Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP)
• The Total no of women in Bangladesh Police is
  2246 , and Govt will soon recruit another 3000
  Police Women .

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Necessity for a Network for Police women in
Bangladesh

• For a platform to address the barriers that
  police women face in their line of duty.
• To raise the profile of police women
• To build up their capacity .
• To increase professionalism and mentoring the
  police women for building leadership.
• To increase the sense of security among the women
  population of the country.
• Bangladesh Police women senior offcers felt
  the necessity to make a platform for the police
  women.

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Emergence of Bangladesh Police Women Network (
BPWN)

• The Strategic Plan for Bangladesh Police
  2008-2010 include Gender as one of its component
  and includes existing requirement of policewomen
  by upholding Women Police and Gender
  Sensitization as one of the major key strategic
  areas in directions and policies . In its policy,
  the Strategic plan categorically mentioned
  feasibility assessment and implementation of
  institutionalized support mechanisms for women
  such as the Women Policing Network.

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BANGLADESH POLICE WOMENS NETWORK (BPWN)
Bangladesh Police Womens Network (BPWN) came
into existence on 21 November 2008. This network
will bring a massive cultural change among
policewomen in particular and Bangladesh Police
in General.
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Vision

• In Making the capability of leadership of police
  women in Bangladesh for the National and
  International arena of development where police
  women will perform up to the standard of its own.

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Goals

1. To Strengthen the position of policewomen in
   Bangladesh.
2. To develop the professional aptitude getting the
   acquired world class knowledge by introducing its
   international network.
3. To ensure the participation of police women at
   the policy level by empowering and increasing
   the number of women police in Bangladesh.

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Goals

• 4) To increase participation of women police in
  different work areas in national and
  international milieu.
• 5) To create appropriate working atmosphere by
  developing the women police training, health,
  social status economic solvency and all other
  welfare activities.
• 6) Taking all necessary measures to establish
  and facilitate the job of police women as far as
  there legal justified rights are concerned.

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Goals
7) Books, booklets, journals papers are to
publish in facilitating, the training, meeting,
seminar, symposium for improving professional
capability of police women. 8) Proactive role
preserve the rights of police women in
employment, posting, promotion overall
development.
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Formation of BPWN

1. President
2. Vice Presidents
3. General Secretary
4. Finance Secretary
5. 23 executive members from all ranks
6. Recently 07 division has got 7 coordinators to
   liaison with the central BPWN body .

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Recent activities

• Build the constitution
• Divisional meeting to exchange views with the
  filed level police women .
• Registration process of BPWN
• Affiliation to IAWP is ongoing
• Join Annual Conference of IAWP
• Will arrange first Asia Region Women Police
  conference in March 2012 , Bangladesh
• IAWP President and the Board of Directors will be
  present in the conference
• This will be the first of its kind in Asia
• Will observe the International Women Day on 8th
  March with the IAWP and Asia Region women Police
  officers in Bangladesh.

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Thank You