WhatsApp, Now The Savior Of Women in Crisis

BENGALURU: Two months after the launch of ‘Himmat’, the app launched by the Delhi Police Department for women’s safety, the department has taken another fruitful step. The police have facilitated the helpline on WhatsApp and Hike messengers. The facility is available at 8800001091.

Now the ladies in Delhi can conveniently post the details and the images of the accused in this WhatsApp group. The users can send a brief complaint and the accurate details of when and where the crime had happened and add other essential details like vehicle’s registration number to alert the police.

The police picked WhatsApp as their choice citing the wide usage among the youth and the elders. Besides this, Whatsapp can be accessed on Android and non-Android Phones.

Ranvir Singh, Additional Commissioner of Police, Operations, said that "All details received on WhatsApp and Hike groups will be saved for one week so that we can track the accused or the vehicle.”

This is a quick help-line number which the Police expect will reach out to maximum number of women in Delhi in a short period. Delhi Police Commissioner anticipates that such handy tools can instill self-confidence in women.

O. P. Mishra, DCP, operations and communications, said "The number has been integrated with the PA-100 system which will send an alert to the control room and the nearest PCR van will be rushed to the spot."

While talking to TOI Bassi reiterated his proposal to start compulsory self-defense classes for girl students from Class III onwards so that they overcome the capacity gap with boys by the time they are teenagers. He requested the women not using smartphones to save 100 and 1091 on their speed-dialing list so that immediate calls can be made to police control room.

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