Every 30 minutes a woman in India is raped and many never see justice because they are too fearful to report their attackers to a corrupt police force.
But a new innovation may soon change that.
The police in India are notoriously understaffed, underpaid and untrained to handle crimes against women, The New York Times reported last January.
Since their compensation is meager, many officers often rely on bribes and pay little attention to victims who don’t have political connections.
Realizing the need for women in India to be able to securely and confidently report crimes that have been waged against them, Odisha police officer Joydeep Nayak invented the Instant Complaint Logging Internet Kiosk (iClik). The device is modeled after an ATM’s design and allows users to log a complaint to the police in a similar fashion to the way they would take out money, according to India Today.
Users can file a complaint in one of three ways. They can manually type their issue onto the machine, speak into the machine or submit a written statement.
Critics say that this may add an undue step in the reporting process, but advocates say that women simply will likely not reveal the crime otherwise.
"Women dread going into an all-male police station," Lopamudra Baxipatra, head of the local Women's Commission, told the Sydney Morning Herald. "It's not just that it is intimidating, but they have heard of women being assaulted in police custody. They come to me with complaints but when I tell them to go to the police, they refuse."
ATM Enables Indian Women To Report Rape Without Fear Of Backlash 
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