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28-05-2013, 12:20 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
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As a young girl, she watched her granduncle get involved in local elections.
It was a sign of things to come.
Years later, she would be involved in six general elections of her own as a police officer and has now risen to become the highest-ranking female cop in Singapore.
The commander of the Police Training Command and Home Team Academy's deputy chief executive Zuraidah Abdullah was promoted to Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police in a ceremony last Wednesday. The appointment will take effect on June 1.
The trailblazer is also chairman of the Malay Heritage Foundation and a member of the National Heritage Board.
Married with three grown step-children, Madam Zuraidah told The New Paper that she does not have any children of her own.
Smiling like a proud parent as she gestured to the parade square outside the window, she said: "I already have 1,500 here."
Read the full report in The New Paper on Tuesday (May 28).
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?153153-Meet-Singapore-s-first-female-Senior-Assistant-Commissioner-of-Police&goto=newpost).
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As a young girl, she watched her granduncle get involved in local elections.
It was a sign of things to come.
Years later, she would be involved in six general elections of her own as a police officer and has now risen to become the highest-ranking female cop in Singapore.
The commander of the Police Training Command and Home Team Academy's deputy chief executive Zuraidah Abdullah was promoted to Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police in a ceremony last Wednesday. The appointment will take effect on June 1.
The trailblazer is also chairman of the Malay Heritage Foundation and a member of the National Heritage Board.
Married with three grown step-children, Madam Zuraidah told The New Paper that she does not have any children of her own.
Smiling like a proud parent as she gestured to the parade square outside the window, she said: "I already have 1,500 here."
Read the full report in The New Paper on Tuesday (May 28).
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?153153-Meet-Singapore-s-first-female-Senior-Assistant-Commissioner-of-Police&goto=newpost).