almotamar.net - Yemen's Interior Ministry announced last week its need for the recruitment of new 450 Yemeni girls as policewomen the security field.

The Yemeni Interior Ministry demand comes after it managed to recruit three thousand Yemeni girls in this field in the past three years. They have been able to prove the need of the society for them beside security men though the action was fac3ed with strong rejection by Yemeni Islamic political parties and a number of tribes that used to view the woman presence in the armed forces as a shame.

General Yahya Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, chief of general staff at the central security said a group of the policewomen had been employed in combating terror forces and that helped arrest terrorists disguised in woman's clothes. General Yahya Saleh affirmed in a press statement it was discovered that some terrorists put on woman's clothes and hide themselves in areas where there majority of women and they use women for protecting themselves. He added that male offices in the force cannot search women due to traditions.

Woman police in Yemen have achieved many successes and managed to fight all forms of terror. Women commandos have been able to foil many terrorist operations intended to be carried out by wearing woman's clothes and managed to discover some women working for transporting explosives to terrorist groups, including the Houthi group.

Source: alan website