Delhi Police gets ready to resume self-defence training programmes for women

The classes, which were briefly discontinued in 2020 due to the pandemic, were held online prior to this.

Amid a decline in COVID-19 cases in the national capital, the Delhi Police’s Special Police Unit for Women and Children (SPUWAC) has written to RWAs, NGOs, educational institutions and hospitals across the city for conducting self-defence training programmes for women and girls, officials said on Sunday. The self-defence training programmes, which are conducted free of cost by SPUWAC, were briefly discontinued last year due to the pandemic. Later, they were conducted online. With schools in the national capital reopening and more people stepping out of their homes, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Self-defence, SPUWAC) Sunita Sharma has written to various NGOs, RWAs, educational institutions, BPOs and hospitals, inviting them to host the Delhi Police’s self-defence training programmes for their women staff and girl students.