The Deputy lnspector General (DIG) of Police responsible for Administration Mrs Merlyn Yolamu has advised executive committee for Police Women Network to be active and implement action plans of the female police officers’ grouping.
The call was made on April 12, 2022 at Central Region Training Centre in Lilongwe where the executive team organised a two day meeting.
Speaking to the participants the DIG reminded the executive committee that the women platform was created with an aim to advance women empowerment and ensure gender mainstreaming and equality in the Malawi Police Service(MPS)
Yolamu also pleaded with her fellow women to start working, safeguarding and protecting the image of MPS and strategize to bring back sanity in the service. She also urged the executive team to radiate, champion, promote and enforce discipline amongst female officers at all times which is a bedrock of policing.
She, however, condemned some women in uniform who indulge into sexual relationships with senior officers to gain favours.
“As leaders you have to be exemplary to fellow women in uniform, and l urge all female law enforcers not to present themselves as victims or incapable of anything that will give room to their male counterparts to abuse them sexually.
“Most women have low self-esteem and they think they cannot excel in the service without the help of a senior male officer but it’s a tendency that a lot of female officers tend to have an inferiority complex,” she said.
Yolamu also encouraged them to upgrade their academic qualifications in order to climb the ladders in the service.
Echoing the same, the Chairperson for the Network Jessie Nyirongo (Assistant Commissioner of Police) who is also Anti-Motor Vehicle in-charge promised to execute the Police duties according to management expectations and for the common good of the citizenry.
Nyirongo also thanked the management for honoring her request of 40/60 percentage of female in the recent recruitment.
Police Women Network has raised some funds by themselves to help flood victims in Chikwawa District.
Sub Inspector Amina Tepani Daudi
Secretary- Malawi Police Women Network
Cell:0999 706 525
Email:mamateps1152@gmail.com
Website:www.police.gov.mw