Kiran Bedi, the country`s first woman IPS officer, has got yet another first to her credit. The Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police (training) has been elected as the first woman general secretary of the Indian Police Service Association (IPSA), which coordinates activities among state police forces. Joint Commissioner (traffic) Maxwell Pereira has been elected as joint secretary of the association. Describing her election as an opportunity of leadership and responsibility, Bedi said that she would focus on galvanising and activating of police forces and make the government sensitive about the issues concerning all police ranks and not only the IPS cadres.
Among her first priorities as head of the IPSA would be to ascertain the status of Padmanabaiah Committee which has talked about insulating police from political intervention, particularly appointments, through formation of security committees.

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