NEW DELHI - India’s interior minister has ordered each police station in New Delhi to beef up the number of women officers to facilitate complaints from women. It is the latest in a string of changes that follow the fatal gang rape of a student that shocked the nation. 
 
 Interior Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday said each police station in Delhi should have 10 female constables and two female sub inspectors. “We will be posting these women very soon according to this order by diverting staff from other places and making them available in Delhi,” police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said. 
 
 Currently, females make up 7% of police forces, he said. New recruits will be selected in the next three to four months, and training will take an additional nine months, he said. Bhagat denied that the new directive was implemented solely because of the rape, but its implementation is aimed at helping women. The directive is necessary because “we need overall more women in the police station as other women feel more comfortable with female officers,” he said. “If all women complaints are attended to promptly situations like that of the gang-raped medical student may have been avoided.” The interior minister also said he is working with security officials to strengthen laws regarding rape and assault. 
 
 In the state of Haryana, about 80 miles northwest of Delhi, officials will make public the profiles of rapists online. 
 
 The state will publish the names, addresses and case numbers of convicted rapists on a website that anyone can access. 
 
 “In doing so, we hope to curb crime against women,” said Laik Ram Dabbas, director of the state crime records bureau. The police expect to approve the measure and the website could be active this month, Dabbas said. 
 
 “By making these names and profiles public we think crime can be curbed, as in India people are sensitive to public embarrassment and once the public is aware of such people roaming around their area they will become more careful,” Dabbas said. 
 
 The men accused in the gang rape that led to the death of the 23-year-old Indian woman were formally charged with murder, rape and kidnapping in a New Delhi court Thursday. The attack on the woman, who died last week from her severe injuries, has appalled and enraged many Indians, prompting widespread debate over the way the country handles sexual assaults and the treatment of women in Indian society. 
 
 Numerous protests have taken place, new laws have been proposed and senior lawyers in the court district where the accused men have been charged say they will not represent them. Police submitted charges against five suspects before a new fast-track court in Saket, a southern district of New Delhi, said Suman Nalwa, deputy police commissioner of a special unit for women and children. 
 
 He said authorities were waiting for the outcome of a bone marrow test before deciding whether a sixth suspect in the attack, believed to be a minor, will be charged as a juvenile or an adult. 
 
 The results of the test, intended to determine the suspect’s exact age, should come soon, Nalwa said. The trial will begin this week once all the evidence is gathered, he said. ||||| Delhi Police planned to arrest eight suspects in connection with the gang rape of a Danish tourist in a central part of India’s capital, according to Alok Kumar, a deputy police commissioner. 
 
 Police released 15 men detained earlier who provided information about the whereabouts of the suspects, Kumar said by phone. The 51-year-old woman told police she was raped at knife-point by a group of men between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. yesterday in Paharganj neighborhood, which contains many hotels and is close to tourist sites. 
 
 “We are in the process of executing a number of raids throughout the city,” Kumar said. “We expect to have a breakthrough within the hour.” 
 
 The case adds to safety concerns that have deterred women from visiting the world’s second-most populous nation, where the number of reported rapes jumped 57 percent over the past decade. Indian leaders have struggled to alter male attitudes toward women even after the gang rape and murder of a student in New Delhi in December 2012 triggered an international uproar. 
 
 “The message being sent to the world is that if you are a woman, you shouldn’t come to India alone,” said Ranjana Kumari, director of Centre for Social Research, a women’s advocacy group in New Delhi. “It is a matter of great, great concern that this is happening, and we’re not doing enough to stop these attacks.” 
 
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 Danish Ambassador Freddy Svane confirmed in an e-mail that one of his country’s citizens was involved in a rape case. The embassy in New Delhi had no further comments, he said. 
 
 A woman was raped in India every 21 minutes on average in 2012, according to the most recent National Crime Records Bureau data, statistics that police say reflect increased confidence among females to report attacks. The country saw a 35 percent drop in foreign female tourist arrivals in the first three months of last year, according to a study published in April by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry in India. 
 
 In March, a Swiss woman was gang raped while camping with her husband, while a British woman jumped out of the window of her hotel room in Agra -- home to the Taj Mahal -- to flee an assault by staff. In June, an American woman was gang raped while hitchhiking back to her hotel in the Himalayas. 
 
 The Danish tourist was attacked yesterday on her final night in India as she returned from the city’s main shopping district and approached a group of men asking for directions, according to Pushkar Singh, the manager at the Hotel Amax Inn, where she was staying. The men robbed her, beat her and then took turns to rape her, he said. 
 
 Delhi ‘Rotting’ 
 
 “What part of Delhi is safe now?” Singh said in an interview. “There’s a problem of education among a portion of the population, and that’s rotting the city.” 
 
 The hotel had seen a decline in tourists since the rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in Delhi prompted a national outcry and made international headlines, Singh said. The Danish tourist was due to fly home at 10 a.m. today after spending two nights at his hotel, he said. 
 
 Paharganj’s budget hotels, bars and restaurants are popular with backpackers. It is less than a kilometer from Delhi’s main railway station and a short drive from tourist sites such as India Gate, the Mughal-era Red Fort and the presidential palace. 
 
 To contact the reporters on this story: Kartikay Mehrotra in New Delhi at kmehrotra2@bloomberg.net; Andrew MacAskill in New Delhi at amacaskill@bloomberg.net 
 
 To contact the editor responsible for this story: Daniel Ten Kate at dtenkate@bloomberg.net
– India is taking a tangible first step to address concerns that its largely male police departments look the other way when it comes to rapes and sexual assaults: It's recruiting women to the force, reports Pakistan Today. Each precinct in New Delhi, where last month's gang rape took place, must add 12 women in the coming months, says the nation's interior minister. Overall, 2,500 female officers will be recruited, reports the Wall Street Journal. (The victim's boyfriend spoke out for the first time yesterday, offering new details and complaining about the response of police and passersby.)