The Minister of the Armed Forces, Admiral Ruben Paulino Alvarez, announced that 400 women army officers will be transferred to the National Police following a request made to this end by Chief of the Police, Mayor General Jose Aníbal Sanz Jiminián. The women will make up a new police force that will be assigned to public schools. In recent months violence has sprouted in schools, several of which have been affected by neighborhood gangs.
