Delhi Police today held a meeting here with officials of BPOs and asked them to take adequate steps to ensure the security and safety of women employees travelling in the night.

Amulya Patnaik, Joint Commissioner of Police (Southern Range), met senior officials of BPOs located in the capital and neighbouring Noida and Gurgaon, a day after a call centre employee was abducted and raped while returning home from office.

Patnaik asked the BPOs to ensure that the women employees working in night shifts are dropped at their home and not at main roads, a senior police official who attended the meeting, said.

He also instructed the call centres to provide a list of "Do's and Dont's" to drivers and employees travelling during the night.

Drivers should be instructed not to take strangers in the vehicles, Patnaik told the BPO officials and added that the vehicle should be tracked through a GPS system.

The BPOs have been asked to install GPS in cabs ferrying their employees, the official said.

"Prominent routes have also been identified. We have asked them to ensure that a security guard also accompany them in the vehicles," he said.

The official said the companies were also asked to get police verification of cab drivers and security guards who were accompanying the staff in the vehicles.

"Also, the Police Commissioner has asked us to step up PCR patrolling during the night to ensure that working women were safe," the official said.