Kuwait City, 24 April (AKI) - Women in Kuwait will be allowed to enter the police force from September, according to a local police official.
The director of the police academy, Yusuf al-Mudahaka, said that from September, women in the oil-rich emirate will be able to apply for recruitment to the local police force which currently is only open to men.
Al-Mudahaka was speaking on Wednesday at a ceremony with security officials which was also attended by the Emir of Kuwait, Sabah al-Ahmad.
"By September, at the latest, we will begin accepting applications from women, and in October we will present the first female police corps," he said.
According to a report on the pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, the plan to create a police corp of female officers, was approved by Kuwait's council of ministers in 2001 and was followed by the creation last November of the first police academy for women.
In the political arena however, so far only 28 women have registered as candidates for next month's elections in Kuwait.
These women also ran in the 2006 polls. The number of male candidates however has increased significantly from 250 candidates in 2006 to 380 this year.
-- AKI
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