Rejecting the Human Rights Watch report, Afghan policewomen demanded for restoration of honour on Saturday, suggesting that such wrong reports could negatively affect their morale.
Human Rights Watch report released Thursday said that the female police of Afghanistan do not have access to separate facilities at work, suggesting that some of these women were sexually harassed by their colleagues.
Separate bedrooms for sleeping and changing, as well as separate toilets are facilities that are not available to the Afghan policewomen, the report said.
"Whoever released the report wants to dishearten families so that they won't allow their girls to join police. The report is imperfect. We reject it," a policewoman told TOLOnews.
Another said "We have separate toilets, changing rooms. We don't have any problem. We're not harassed."
Afghan interior ministry called the watch to prove the correctness of the report and to hand over documents and evidence to the ministry for further inspections.
"Releasing such reports harms our efforts and investments for increasing the number of women in police ranks and their progress," said Sediq Sediqi, spokesman of Ministry of Interior Affairs, "It harms women's honour as well."
Kabul police chief Ayub Salangi said that "no immorality and harassment to women at Kabul police headquarters are acceptable to us."
The number of Afghan policewomen was to reach 5,000 by 2014, however, there are currently 2,200 of them serving at police forces.