With her position firmly consolidated as the new Delhi Commission for Women chief, Swati Maliwal hauled up Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi on the issue of women's safety in the capital, on Saturday.

Maliwal shot off two letters to Bassi taking note of increasing crime rates against women, and asking for the status of safety measures. The catalysts for her actions seem to be the recent horrific, public murder of a 19 year old girl in Delhi's Anand Parbat area, which went ripples of outrage and shock through the city, and the latest data by the National Crime Records Bureau that, according to Maliwal's letter shows five cases of rape and twelve cases of molestation of women in Delhi, everyday.

Maliwal,a former RTI activist, has informed Bassi that Anand Parbat will be the pilot area in a study on crime against women, and to further this end she has sought details of such crimes from the locality's police station. These details include whether an FIR was registered for the complaint, what you current status of the case is and what the duration of the trial was and whether the accused was convicted.

In her second letter, Maliwal has expanded the scope of her enquiry, asking for similar data from all police stations, along with police protection provided to complainants, from 2012 onwards. She has sought to.know the strength of the police force in Delhi, out of which, rank wise how many are women. She has asked for the police stations with the highest number of complaints of crimes against women, spots with the highest cases of such crimes and their proximity to schools and colleges.

This extensive data is purportedly for a comprehensive study on the status of such crimes in Delhi, one of the tasks Maliwal had promised to undertake upon her appointment. It remains to be seen how cooperative the Delhi police is in this exercise, given the history of animosity between Bassi's force and any arm of the AAP led government, where both parties have sought to undermine and undo the other's work.