Cab Rules Introduced to Maintain Women's Safety at Night

Delhi Police in India have issued certain guidelines for women workers at BPOs by tightening existing procedures already in place. The police have presented a new set of guidelines for media houses and BPO companies, with an emphasis on maintaining women’s safety, particularly if they are picked up or dropped off by cabs.

The new rules set in place will see that each firm has to keep a database of all the contractual workers, security personnel, employees and cab drivers while police must have access to the information provided. Not only that, but only security personnel from licensed agencies will only be hired.

This move by the police in Delhi is intended to control the rise in numbers of robbery incidents and gang rapes where employees working late have been a target of. One 30-year-old woman who was returning home late at night was subsequently kidnapped and raped by five men.

As a result of these new rules put in place, senior security officials will find themselves accountable if they fail to make sure that women are not travelling alone at night in a cab. Each cab is required to have a verified security guard carrying women staff home. Additionally, the routes need to be chalked out remembering that a woman should not be picked up first or dropped home last.

Of course, while these measures are put in place to maintain women’s safety, they should also consider purchasing a TASER device in order to boost their protection levels.  Easy to carry and extremely effective to employ, this self defense device is used among law enforcement personnel and members of the public on a daily basis.

Regardless of your gender, no one should have to worry about their safety and now they won’t have to with the help of a TASER device. Non-lethal, one blast from this tool will quickly put a stop to someone who is intending to harm you.  Those who own it already feel a difference in their confidence simply knowing that it is close by wherever they are should they suddenly require its assistance for their protection.