{"id":18832,"date":"2014-06-05T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=18832"},"modified":"2014-06-05T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:56:37","slug":"roadside-romeos-beware-fem-patrol-is-watching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/roadside-romeos-beware-fem-patrol-is-watching-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadside Romeos beware! Fem-patrol is watching you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><em><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong><\/em> With the number of instances of women and girl students being harassed on their way to work, schools or colleges on a steady rise in the city, the city police has decided to start &#8216;<strong>Fem Patrol<\/strong>&#8216; an innovative project to tackle such cases exclusively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Under the Fem Patrol scheme, police will recruit volunteers from among female students in city schools and colleges and groom them as police informers.\u00a0 The officials of the Women&#8217;s cell will give training to the volunteers. Students who saw other women or students being harassed could alert the police, either by calling specific numbers that would be given to them, or to help-lines, or by sending messages.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The project will be launched first at Govt Higher Secondary School for Girls, Cotton Hill, Vazhuthacaud. Later, the project will be extended to all schools in the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The officials of Women&#8217;s cell will visit all schools and conduct awareness classes on the need to report harassment cases to the police. The awareness classes will help to build Fem Patrol among the students and volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the patrol&#8217;s mode of operation is sending policemen and women constables in mufti on city buses and to other select spots where girl students are regularly victims of teasing and other forms of harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: With the number of instances of women and girl students being harassed on their way to work, schools or colleges on a steady rise in the city, the city police has decided to start &#8216;Fem Patrol&#8216; an innovative project to tackle such cases exclusively. Under the Fem Patrol scheme, police will recruit volunteers from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-18832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}