Indian Women In Uniform

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On Patrol with UN Female Indian Police unit...

On Patrol with UN Female Indian Police unit...

UN Photo/Christopher Herwig

In the backseat of a United Nations Police vehicle, a young Indian woman in a blue camouflage police uniform has her long black hair tucked inside a blue beret and a pistol strapped to her waist.
On the dark streets of Monrovia, still without street lights seven years out of war, Rewti Arjunan patrols some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods. She's serving in one of the world's only all-female police units deployed to a United Nations peacekeeping mission. The 28 year old flew to West Africa with this landmark deployment of a 100% female police unit just five days after a traditional wedding ceremony in India. This story is fascinating because it raises questions about traditional gender roles in both India and Liberia, and the symbolism to Liberian women of strong, authoritative women. But it also raises questions about whether female peacekeepers do their jobs any differently. Are they softer? Do they negotiate rather than strong-arm? Or do they "act like men" to do the job? This plays out against the dichotomy of gender advancements in Liberia - it's the first African country to elect a female president, but the realities on the ground for the rest of the female population is dismal. Rape is rampant. Most women are illiterate, but forced to be the bread winners for their families. And in this patriarchal society, women do what their husbands tell them - whatever that might be. One woman told me, "If my husband says lie down, I will beat you all day. I will lie down."

Going on patrol with the Indian Female Police unit was for a documentary for CBC Radio's Dispatches.

Bonnie Allen | From the Field

The all-female Indian police unit serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia in training/ (Photo credit: UN News Centre)

photo: UN policewoman Rewti Arjunan teaches unarmed combat to teenagers while off-duty.

CBC DISPATCHES:

The west African state of Liberia is rebuilding after a protracted civil war, and a special unit of UN peacekeepers is there to see that it does.

Liberia is another of the UN's largest deployments, and embedded in it is a police unit most others don't have.

It is entirely female, and it says it brings something to the dangerous game of peacekeeping that men just can't, as we hear from Canadian journalist Bonnie Allen.

 

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Captain Lakshmi

Captain Lakshmi was the chief of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment.
Sahgal was born on 24 October 1914 as Lakshmi Swaminathan in Chennai, Madras Presidency, British India.

Lakshmi Sehgal died of Cardiac Arrest on July 23 , 2012 at Kanpur.

 

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Cadets all in smile after the passing out ceremony of the 84th batch of cadets of the Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala in Kannur on Saturday.

 

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Indian Army women expedition to Siachen happened in 2009. A Team comprising only lady officers of the Indian Army scaled Indra Col, the highest point on Siachen glacier on 15 August 2009, making it the first ladies team to have reached the highest battlefield in the world.

 

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CRPF women commando squad.

 

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Rapid Action Force - Anti Riot wing of the Indian Central Reserve Police Force.