KP Gets Its First Female DPO
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has appointed officer Sonia Shamroz for the post of District Police Officer (DPO), a first for the province.
Shamroz holds an MBA in Human Resource Management and is an 18-grade officer who recently returned to Pakistan after studying on the Chevening Fellowship from the UK. During her fellowship, she completed a course on Violence against Women and Conflict.
Upon returning, Shamroz had been posted as the DPO of Lower Chitral. Before her latest posting, she had served as the Principal at the Mansehra Police Training Center.
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Hailing from Abbottabad, Shamroz was appointed as an Assistant Superintendent Police (ASP) in 2013, following which she was posted as the Superintendent of Police (SP) Abbottabad for one-and-a-half years.
Sonia Shamroz becomes first-ever woman to be appointed as KP district police chief
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Twitter/KP Police/via The News
PESHAWAR: Sonia Shamroz has become the first-ever woman to be appointed as the police chief of a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. For the first time in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a woman police officer has been appointed district police chief, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police wrote on Twitter, announcing that Sonia Shamroz had been assigned to Lower Dir.
Last month, the deputy superintendent of police (DSP) for Peshawar, Aneela Naz, became the first woman traffic cop in KP and started checking driving licenses and briefing people about the rules and regulations for roads.