She also suggested that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address to the nation on the December 16 incident could have come a little earlier instead of a week after the "horrendous" crime.
Dikshit acknowledged that people "shy away" from helping others who are in distress because they feel that they will be "harassed" by the police, and asked the force to change its attitude and style of functioning. She felt that the force personnel should behave as "gentleman" police at the need of hour.
"It worries me. Yes. It worries me that police force is not as sensitive or responsive as it ought to be or well behaved as it ought to be
