New Delhi: In wake of the rape of a five-year-old girl in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday proposed the setting up of a special citizen force for women while demanding removal of union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and the Delhi Police commissioner.
"The Delhi Police should be given two months time to rectify its past failures and regain the faith of people, else Aam Aadmi Party proposes the setting up of citizen's security force for ensuring that no girl child or women goes through what Damini and now Gudiya has gone through," said a release by the party, which is led by Arvind Kejriwal.
The citizen security force will be formed on the lines of Nitish Kumar's state auxiliary police (SAP) in Bihar and would be supervised by retired army officers, it said.
Young people would be enrolled in the force would be given commando training to handle all kinds of situation, especially those related to women's safety....
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