Meet Manisha Ropeta, First Hindu Woman In Pak To Become A Senior Cop

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Karachi: Manisha Ropeta makes the head change not only because he is among several female officers in an authoritative position in the Sindh police but also for the fact that the 26 -year -old man was the first woman of the Hindu minority community in Pakistan who became a Deputy of Police Inspector.

In the community and culture of men dominated by Pakistan, it is difficult for women to join a profession that is considered “male” like the police.

Since childhood, my sister and I have seen the same old patriarchal system where daughters are told if they want to be educated and work, it can only be a teacher or doctor,” said Ropeta from the Sindh Jacobabad area.

Owned by a middle class family from Jacobabad in the Sindh interior province, Ropeta said he wanted to end this sentiment that girls from good families should have nothing to do with the police or district courts.

Women are the most oppressed and the target of many crimes in our society and I join the police because I feel we need ‘protectors’ of women in our society,” he said.

Ropeta, who is currently in training, will be posted in the Lyari area filled with crime.

He felt that working as a senior police officer was truly empowering women and giving them authority.

I want to lead the encouragement of feminization and encourage gender equality in the police. I myself am always very inspired and interested in the work of the police, “said DSP.

Asked what encouraged him to choose a different profession, Ropeta said he had failed with one sign to clean his MBBS entrance examination. “I then told my family that I took the title in physical therapy but at the same time I was preparing for the Sindh Public Service Commission exam and I graduated that I got the 16th position among 468 candidates.” Ropeta’s father is a trader in Jacobabad. He died when he was 13 years old after that his mother took his children to Karachi and raised them.

He admitted that although it was not easy to be in a senior position in the Sindh police and to conduct field training in places such as Lyari, his colleagues, superiors and junior treat him by respecting his views and hard work.

Ropeta remembers that in his hometown it is not an ordinary practice for girls to pursue higher education and even when his relatives know that he joined the police they said he would not survive that was a difficult profession.