Over the past few decades, policing and police officers have changed. Besides male women have worked within our law enforcement system for over one hundred and seventy years. This paper examines the problem and prospects of women in policing and the challenges they have faced. History of women in policing will be presented from the first instances of women being hired as law enforcement to their current status. Research information indicates that, despite high levels of sexual harassment and discrimination, women police officers perform as well as their male peers although their numbers are small within their departments. As a police officer and a student of MPS under the University of Rajshahi, my term paper topic ‘The problem and prospects of women policing in Bangladesh’ is interesting to me. I have conducted my study through review of literature on police-media relation in Bangladesh and a questionnaire survey on police personnel and media people in Narayangong region specially. The questionnaire has been formed with different aspects of problem and prospects of women policing through which I have collected opinion of them. Based on the literature review outcome and the group opinion outcomes of woman policing I have tried to identify the points of problem and prospects of women policing and then to find out the possible remedial measures of it. Statistics of the research outcome are shown in both charts and tables. Police is one of the major and important components of criminal justice system and women Police is important entity in any countries police service. Though it is a challenging profession but instead of some obstacles they are doing well in Bangladesh and all over the world. They can play positive role in the reduction of crime in the society. Bangladesh is a developing country whose society consists of the combination of both open and closed society. The women policing has important effect in developing or restructuring the society of Bangladesh.
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