Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn has called on female police ranks to be “hands on” and “more empathetic” when dealing with domestic and gender-based violence reports.
“We have a far way to go and a long way from where we should be in terms of the respect for women and in respect to the issue of domestic violence. We have a recurrent situation where the women complain that they go to the police stations and they are turned away and that even women police officers fall in with perhaps the agenda of the men and perhaps they don’t want things to work. They don’t want to get involved because it may be a family or a friend,” Benn said.
He was at the time addressing more than 100 policewomen from the various policing divisions during a meeting which was held on Tuesday at the Officers’ Training Centre, Camp Road, Georgetown.
