CEBU CITY, Philippines–Police Brigadier General Debold Sinas, the director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), said he will support the plans of Cebu City Police Office
New CCPO director, Police Colonel Gemma Cruz Vinluan, said she is planning for the formation of an all-woman SWAT team to empower women in the police force.
Sinas said that women police are just as capable as men and this has been proven by Garma’s leadership in the past year in the CCPO. The General said that women should play active roles in the police force and not be contained in administrative duties or in the women and children’s desk.Furthermore, Sinas said the region hopes to download more policewomen in the force to handle the more delicate positions, or the positions that is most close to the community.
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