LF: No longer an arresting sight: Mexico's female only police unit who wore sexy uniforms and were chosen for their attractiveness is disbanded for damaging the force's image

Title: No longer an arresting sight: Mexico's female only police unit who wore sexy uniforms and were chosen for their attractiveness is disbanded for damaging the force's image
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... ed-damaging-force-s-image.html
Published: Mar 11, 2016
Author: Ben Tufft
Post Date: 2016-03-11 08:53:36 by cranky
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A Mexican police director has disbanded the country's notorious female only unit, known for its sexy uniforms, because it is damaging the image of the force.

Chosen for their physical attractiveness, the 20 officers who made up the squad were kitted out with a tailored tight fitting uniform, sunglasses and 4.7-inch heels.

The special department hit the headlines after President Enrique Pena Nieto published a photo alongside the female officers, who operated out of the city of Aguascalientes in Central Mexico.

The female only unit has been disbanded by a new police director for bringing the force's image into disrepute

The special department hit the headlines after President Enrique Pena Nieto published a photo alongside the female officers, who operate out of the city of Aguascalientes in Central Mexico

The division was set up in 2013 by retired general Rolando Eugenio Hidalgo Eddy who thought it would be a good idea to have a brigade to work at social events.

One of the female officers, who met the president said: 'We had broken formation and were heading for the exit when we met him. We gathered around the president and he said "Well, let's take a picture''.'

But the new secretary of public security for the state, Eduardo Bahena Pineda, was not impressed with the unit and thought it demeaned the force's public image.

The division was set up in 2013 by retired general Rolando Eugenio Hidalgo Eddy who thought it would be a good idea to have a brigade to work at social events

The new secretary of public security for the state, Eduardo Bahena Pineda, was not impressed with the unit and has scrapped it

The department has not been completely scrapped, but the number of officers has been reduced to seven and their uniforms will be the same as the rest of the force.

Alma Rosa, the only female officer left in the reformed unit from the 20 initial members, described the change as positive.

'People would come to us, but they seemed puzzled as we did not look like real policewomen. Now that I'm an operative officer and I wear police shoes I feel much prouder. I was proud before, but now I feel prouder,' she said.

He thought it would be a good idea? It's a great idea. Second only to women's football: