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In the past, when women constituted a small percentage of the working population, a woman was appointed as a woman constable.


This was to satisfy the needs of the Police Department which  found male constables not wanting to deal with the increasing number of females who were getting involved in criminal activities. There were also accusations of harassment of female suspects by male policemen. Social groups too decried the absence of female policewomen to deal with female suspects.  For a start one police woman was engaged and posted to the Police Academy for initial training. 


On her first day at the Academy, which seemed to be a new building she had the urge to use the restroom and so she went from floor to floor looking for a female toilet. She was utterly surprised that not only was there no female toilet, the Academy did not have any toilets either. She could not believe her eyes. She looked up the Director’s office and reported her discovery. The Director was surprised and he called up the Training Manager who was responsible for the construction of the building and asked him to point out the toilets for the building. So they climbed all 4 storeys and came down with no luck. The Training Manager said he would call up the contractor and revert to the Director. When he called up the contractor, the contractor came over with the building plans and confirmed that there were indeed no toilets and the plumbing for the building did not envisage toilets as could be seen from the building plans.The contractor said the construction of new toilets to serve the new building would cost an additional half a million ringgit and the Department should source funds if they wished to proceed with this ambitious project. When this was reported to the Director he jumped up from his seat and gave the Training Director an earful. 


The Training Director wished to communicate this information to the newly appointed police woman but she was not anywhere around. 


She was not around as she had to go to the next building to use their toilet facilities. 


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This is a work of fiction, based on a true incident. Characters, organisations and places have been changed by the writer. Any resemblance to actual person living or dead is purely coincidental. 

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