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Honoring of women municipal police in Burj Hamoud
29-11-2017
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Regional Development and Protection Program for Refugees and Host Communities in Lebanon launched on Monday an audio-visual exhibition about female municipal police in Burj Hamoud. The event which honors these women aims as well to encourage other municipalities to recruit women. To note, the municipalities of Zahleh in Bekaa and Al Mina in Tripoli also hire women in their municipal police. On the occasion, the mayor of Burj Hamoud, Mardik Boghousian, called for streamlining the Burj Hamou model across Lebanon, boasting that the presence of 40 female police and 100 male officers in his municipality has proved to be a satisfactory experience. It started almost 18 months ago, he said, when a young woman asked to join the municipal police, noting that some of the female police work and study at the same time. Boghousian concluded by saying that while some people are still unaccustomed to the presence of female police on the roads, this nevertheless guarantees a kind of required balance. (L’Orient Le Jour, November 29, 2017)
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