{"id":8661,"date":"2013-03-07T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=8661"},"modified":"2013-03-07T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:43:13","slug":"city-police-to-launch-helpline-for-women-in-trivandrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/city-police-to-launch-helpline-for-women-in-trivandrum\/","title":{"rendered":"City Police to launch helpline for women in Trivandrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Trivandrum city police<\/strong> will launch a 24-hour toll free Help Line on<a title=\"Two day International Women\u2019s Day celebration in Trivandrum\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/two-day-international-womens-day-celebration-in-trivandrum\/\" target=\"_blank\"> International Women\u2019s Day<\/a> on March 8th to rapidly respond to crime against women in public places. It is part of a large scheme to make the city safe for women round the clock.<\/p>\n<p>The police say that, they have identified areas such as bus stands, railway stations, taxi stands, roads leading to women\u2019s hostels etc where women feel most threatened. And these areas will have agressive patrolling and will be brought under the surveillance of security cameras. Many felt most vulnerable while travelling on late night trains and buses, which ran almost empty.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers, doctors, psychologists, municipal authorities and women\u2019s organizations will assist the police at different levels to prevent crime against women.<\/p>\n<p>The police will open <strong>&#8216;Help Desk&#8217; for women<\/strong> at public facilities and will launch \u201cwomen friendly\u201d cabs operated by \u201cgender sensitised\u201d persons with a clean police record. Such autos will have a different color and more 24-hour pre-paid auto and taxi stands will be launched. Law enforcement officials also propose to create \u201ccollectives\u201d of women commuters on the same routes to help them articulate their grievances jointly.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials say that their plan is to ensure free and safe access to public places, irrespective of one\u2019s gender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trivandrum city police will launch a 24-hour toll free Help Line on International Women\u2019s Day on March 8th to rapidly respond to crime against women in public places. It is part of a large scheme to make the city safe for women round the clock. The police say that, they have identified areas such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-8661","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\/8661"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}