Employment of Women in India is a contemporary phenomenon in the present society. With rapid increase in industrialization, urbanization, speedy innovations in technology, and to meet with increasing competition, women have entered the workforce of the economy. Women have marked their step in various field such as education, business, politics, social activism, entrepreneurship and serving in national services such as army, navy, air force, police and many other remarkable fields. Now a days women police have become an essential part of the police services not only in India, but across the globe. The job of policing is been pronounced as one of the most stimulating, demanding, health threatening and psychologically unsafe jobs in the world. Their work is connected with menace, administration, and stressed public relations. The mounting number of women police officials in the country in civil, criminal as well as in traffic regulations has brought about the optimistic declarations about the nation’s ranking of the cases against women. The job of the traffic police officers is the field job, they are expected to work in the extreme situations both natural as well as manmade, impacting their physical as well as mental health. Here, the question arises that whether the police force have developed such kind of sensitivity towards its women police officers who are expected to be 24/7 on duty comprising of both their official duty hours and performing the domestic responsibilities after switching off from their official working hours? This question paved the way for the present descriptive research study to explore the ground realities of the problems and challenges faced by women traffic police officers, using semi structured interview schedule as a research tool to conduct the study of 45 women traffic police officers in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat.

Keywords: Women Traffic Police Officers, Policing, Physical and Mental Health, Sensitivity.

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