There is no difference either in the syllabi or methods of training of men and women police either in Delhi or Tamil Nadu. In West Bengal the women are trained in a separate school, where riding and driving facilities are not available. In Maharashtra while the training for male is for nine months, women constables have only a three-month stint. The broad level duties which women police perform in different States notwithstanding the recommendations of the National Police Commission for utilization of women in investigation concerning women and children and in patrolling slums, etc.. and can be thus enumerated.

i) Searching of women.
ii) Guarding women accused.
iii) Participating in the investigation of sex offences against women, or minor females.

In reality, they are given very few functions and the nature of which are more ceremonial than real. Generally women police are not given independent investigation of crimes even where sexual abuse, rape, dowry deaths, etc. are involved. While a police station "manned" entirely by women did perform with a high rate of success in one part of the country, in another part where they had been given independent powers for investigation, perhaps due to over anxiety to prove themselves "rough and tough" had behaved manlier abusing their position more than that of their counterparts. The conflict is due the absence of clear cut policy of their role. "Do women recruited in the police force because they are women possessing certain qualities different from men or recruited to be on equal footing prepared to do all works including handling of hardened criminals and in combating terrorists?"