India, Nov. 11 -- Watching female police officers on Indian web series do their duties with a kind of steady competence has a strangely comforting quality. In the celebration of the arrival of Delhi Crime season 3, let's look at the best female cops in Indian web series.

Consider Sonakshi Sinha's Anjali Bhaati in Dahaad. In a plot that is loosely based on the true story of serial killer Cyanide Mohan, her portrayal is of a woman who doesn't use dramatics or raise her voice (that appears to be a purview of male cops in fiction). She just works, methodically.

In Aranyak, Raveena Tandon plays a woman who has the ability to question a suspect while en route to picking up her child from tuition class. The beauty of her performance lies in th...