{"id":29887,"date":"2021-03-18T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/18\/the-best-cops-indian-state-recruits-its-first-transgender-police-officers-chhattisgarh"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:00:23","slug":"the-best-cops-indian-state-recruits-its-first-transgender-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29887","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The best cops\u2019: Indian state recruits its first transgender police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 13 new constables have overcome society\u2019s prejudice to win a place at Chhattisgarh\u2019s training academy<\/p>\n<p>The top police officer in Chhattisgarh state, Durgesh Awasthi, has nothing but praise for his new recruits. He suspects, he says, some of them will prove to be \u201cthe best cops\u201d the force has ever enlisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are sensitive, have a high emotional quotient and know not just how the other half lives but what it\u2019s like being on the other side of the law,\u201d said Awasthi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/18\/the-best-cops-indian-state-recruits-its-first-transgender-police-officers-chhattisgarh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 13 new constables have overcome society\u2019s prejudice to win a place at Chhattisgarh\u2019s training academyThe top police officer in Chhattisgarh state, Durgesh Awasthi, has nothing but praise for his new recruits. He suspects, he says, some of them will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2017,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,62,72,636,79,61,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-india","category-lgbt-rights","category-police","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29888,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887\/revisions\/29888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}