The Indian Police force has around 6% women in the force. Of those women only 6% make it to an officer level. 

In this episode, we celebrate Sutapa Sanyal. Sutapa is an ex - IPS officer and has served as the Director General of Police in Uttar Pradesh. One of the few women who have held such a high post in the IPS. Sutapa Sanyal is an expert in Ending Violence against Women (EVAW), child protection, and anti-human trafficking. Currently she serves as Director General of Mahila Samman Prakoshth (MSP), an innovative police unit protecting the rights of over 13 million women and children in Uttar Pradesh. At MSP, she is credited with creating award-winning interventions for fighting VAW & enhancing Gender Equality. She has leveraged technology, mass media, citizen participation, community policing and in-house training to deliver a complete model for police transformation. Her interventions have been recognized by the Govt. of India, the Govt. of UK, INTERPOL & US Department of State. She was invited to the UK by the British High Commission as part of an Indian Women Leaders Delegation to share strategies for Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW). She has also represented India at the INTERPOL for the Specialists Group on the Protection of Children.