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Women in the Philippine National Police are women in the Philippines who joined the police force in the Philippines to become policewomen and law enforcers.

Female police officers in General Santos

When Filipino women started to join the male-dominated Philippine National Police (PNP), they were given only assignments that were administrative in nature and jobs that could be classified and described as "desk duties".[1] Within the following thirty years - years after the establishment of the PNP in the early period of the 1990s,[2] female Filipino police officers have participated in other police activities and functions, including risky PNP operations. They have also become commanders in the field of police work. Among the Filipino policewomen who excelled in the PNP were Lina Sarmiento and Lorlie Arroyo.[1]

In 2012, Sarmiento and Arroyo were the only two "female generals" in the Philippine National Police. They were both Chief Superintendents, with Sarmiento being the head of the Police Security and Protection Group (PSPG), while Arroyo was the head of the Crime Laboratory of the Philippine National Police.[2] Arroyo's rank was equivalent to the rank of a brigadier general in the military.[1] In June 2012, Sarmiento was promoted to become the "first two-star female general" of the Philippine National Police and the "first female general to be named in the Directorial Staff of the PNP" since the inception of the Philippine National Police.[2]

In 2023, Portia B. Manalad made history as the first female graduate of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) to hold the rank of Police Brigadier General. Manalad was the sole woman to graduate from the premier Philippine police academy in her batch in 1995 and is also the first recipient of Republic Act 7192,[3] or the Women in Development and Nation Building Act which allowed women to be admitted, trained, and commissioned in the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.[4] In 2019, Manalad also served as the first woman city police director of Cotabato City in Mindanao, Philippines.[5]

As of December 2023, data from the PNP showed there are 41,780 policewomen in the country, of which- 2,978 are officers while 38,802 are non-commissioned officers, comprising 18.32 percent of the 228,000-strong police force.[6]

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  1. ^ a b c DJ Yap and by Jamie Marie Elona. "Woman advances to two-star rank in PNP for first time". Philippine Daily Inquirer and INQUIRER.net (June 22, 2012). Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "PNP's First Two-Star Female General". Manila Bulletin (March 11, 2012). Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Republic Act 7192: Women in Development and Nation Building Act | Philippine Commission on Women". 1992-02-12. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  4. ^ Tupas, Emmanuel. "PNPA has first female police general". Philstar.com. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  5. ^ Cruz, Edwin O. Fernandez, Sheila Mae Dela (2019-05-27). "Cotabato City has first woman police director". INQUIRER.net. Retrieved 2025-03-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Tupas, Emmanuel. "Female cops make history in 2023". Philstar.com. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
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