“I loved the police uniform from when I was a teenager” Kabul, October 2014. Captain Suhaila, after working for 35 years as a police officer, works as the Head of Human Rights within Police District 6 (PD6) in Kabul. “I loved the police uniform from when I was a teenager. Therefore, I joined the police to serve my people”, says Suhaila. This wasn’t her only motivation, Suhaila’s family also encouraged her to join the police. She married a police officer and her son is a police officer as well. Three members of her family, including her, are now serving in the police force of Afghanistan. Suhaila has extensive experience in solving cases related to family violence, especially violence against women. She says her life is full experiences, many cases were investigated by her and one of the cases which has always made her feel proud happened 20 years ago: “A man was burned in his cousin’s house. He died in hospital after 20 days due to serious injuries. It wasn’t clear who did it, nor did he confess how it happened. I went to the house, after investigations I found out that he was burned by his female cousin, whom he tried to rape. The case was very complicated at the beginning, but fortunately I solved it.” EUPOL Afghanistan has conducted a number of Outreach Programmes for Police Districts in Kabul. A number of participants of the programme were later on assigned to provide training courses for the schools and orphanages in different PDs. Suhaila chose to be one of the trainers to organise outreach programmes for the schools. “Visiting girls’ schools is very important. We should tell the girls that we can be friends. I have shared my contact numbers with the girls in PD6, they have always shared their problems with me and this is a big achievement.” Suhaila has received a Best Practice Certificate for her performance in terms of Police-e Mardume (Community Policing) after conducting a number of Police-e Mardume Outreach Programmes in PD6 and more than two thousand students attended the programme. Suhaila believes, the outreach programmes are important for two reasons. First, sharing the contact numbers with the people will increase mutual cooperation between the PDs and citizens. Secondly, the school students will be encouraged to the join the police in the future. Regarding the outreach programme, Suhaila says: “This is one of the most successful programmes. The female students are very interested to attend it. A number of them said they will join the police after graduation. I also gave a commitment to them, to take them myself to register their names at the Afghan National Police Academy (ANPA).” Story on the website: eupol-afg.eu/?q=node/584
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:27:46 +0000
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