No cabs? PCR van hai na!

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 19 Desember 2014 | 22.10

Some girls in the city found a cheaper and safer alternative to taking cabs at night - the PCR van!

A Delhi girl who's stuck late at night somewhere and can't manage to arrange safe transport back home has one option that she's often unaware of: calling up the Women's Helpline and having a PCR vehicle ensure she gets back safe. A police officer explains, "If a girl travelling late at night gets caught in a potentially threatening situation like not getting a cab, or having a vehicle breakdown, she can call us. Our PCR van will help her get a cab or auto and ensure she reaches home safely . We can even drop her to her doorstep in a worst-case scenario."

The unfamiliarity of the average commuter with this option is clear from the fact that data available with the police's women helpline indicates that the facility has only been used once or twice, when a girl was in an isolated area and sought help to get home.

However, while the regular Delhiite appears largely unaware of this option, the cops recently encountered a group that was very well clued into it - perhaps more than what they had anticipated.A police officer, who handled the call on the Women's Helpline a while back, recalls, "I received this call for help from a girl who told me that she was in a lonely area and was unable to get a cab, and requested us to help her get home. We sent a PCR van."

When the police arrived, they found that the girl wasn't on her own, but with a group of friends, who had just got over an evening at a club. The group had planned to take a cab back but found that the night charges made that option a tad expensive - so they decided to arrange a ride home from the cops instead! When the police offered to get them a cab instead, the girls got into an argument about not dropping them home safely and asked. "Agar humein cab kar ke zyada paise hi dene the, toh hum apni already hired cab kyun chhodte?" (Why would we leave our hired cab if we had to shell more money by booking another cab?)

The outsmarted cops finally agreed to drop them home. A second such incident happened recently when some girls wanted to return to their homes in Gurgaon and requested the Delhi Police to escort them. When the police said they were not allowed to cross the Delhi-Gurgaon border, the girls accused the cops of not doing their job. And while the girls eventually had to get a cab at the border, they did manage to hitch a ride till there.

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