“26 CDEWs will be opened in the Tri-Commissionerates and in the future every major sub-division will have a CDEW Centrese” : Shikha Goel-IPS
Hyderabad(May, 23) : Additional DGP Women Safety Wing, Shikha Goel-IPS., in the presence of Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda D. S. Chauhan-IPS inaugurated the Centre for Development and Empowerment of Women (CDEW) or Family Counselling Centre at L B Nagar and launched an outreach van for Awareness Campaigns. Simultaneously 4 CDEWs were inaugurated across the Commissionerate- Uppal by Joint CP Rachakonda V. Satyanarayana-IPS., Kushaiguda by DCP (Admin) P. Indira, Meerpet by DCP L B Nagar B. Sai and Pahadisharief by DCP Cyber Crimes B. Anuradha-IPS., and DCP Maheshwaram Ch. Srinivas.
Speaking on the occasion Shikha Goel-IPS, stated that under the Safe City Project, for the convenience of women, 26 CDEWs will be opened in the Tri-Commissionerates and in the future every major sub-division will have a CDEW Centre. With inauguration of the 5 CDEWs in Rachakonda, 15 CDEWs are functional and by middle of next month all 26 CDEWs will be functional. Either to counselling was done at local PS or Bharosa centre but counselling is a very professional subject and to get professional help it was decided that counsellors should be appointed, further to bring policing to doorsteps it was decided that centres should be close. Thereby, women need not go to the local PS or Bharosa Centre far away, they should be able to come somewhere close to their house. Hence, it was decided to start CDEWs in the tri-commissionerates. She further stated that Domestic Violence is one of the most under reported crimes not only in India but across the world. Intimate partner Violence is not reported as there is stigma attached and women continue to suffer. With CDEWs in Marital cases, attempt will be made to bring families together and women can seek help under professional guidance. Where there is too much violence or parties cannot be reconciled, cases will be registered and necessary action will initiated as per law. All CDEWs operate in a similar manner with standard forms, SOPs, protocols, under the monitoring of Project Management Unit of WSW of Telangana.
CP Rachakonda D.S.Chauhan-IPS, stated that CDEW is a Part of the Safe City Project. A meeting was held with the ADGP Women Safety and Commissioners of Hyderabad, Cyberabad, Rachakonda. It was decided then that the centres should be made functional at the earliest to ensure women empowerment, women protection, women safety, protection from domestic violence or external violence or any type of harassment. Hence, 5 CDEWs were being launched in Commissionerate simultaneously and soon 2 more will launched. He further stated that awareness programs and a short film on Cyber stalking are underway to curtain both on-road or online eve-teasing or harassment. The audio-video van will be used to generate awareness on CDEWs, SHE Teams, Women Safety, online harassment. He reiterated Rachakonda Commissionerate’s commitment to ensuring safety of girls and women both online and on-road.
DCP Road Safety i/c Women Safety Sree bala B, ACP L B Nagar . Sreedhar Reddy, ACP SHE Teams . Venkat Reddy, SHO L B Nagar Anji Reddy, Inspector Women PS Saroor Nagar Manjula, and Staff participated in the program.
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