Tumpa Mukherjee is working as Assistant Professor in Sociology, Women’s Christian College, Kolkata, India. An alumnus of Presidency College, University of Calcutta and Jadavpur University, she has completed her doctoral studies on ‘Women Police in Community Policing: A Comparative Study of Kolkata Police with West Bengal Police (Districts of North & South 24 Parganas)’. Her areas of research interest are Gender Studies; Police and Prison Studies. She has participated in the International Visitors Leadership Program on ‘Human Rights Advocacy and Awareness’ held at the U.S.A. in 2010.