Female cadets dominate PNPA class 2019 honor roll

SIX female cadets have made it to the top 10 graduates of the 2019 Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) class.

Cadet Merriefin Longcob Carisusa finished as salutatorian, Cadet Mary Grace Mag-usara Pabilario ranked third, and Cadets Janila Andrea Malejana Garan, Ciara Ley Lustre Capule, Mary Ann Balbuena de los Santos, and Anne May Padroncillo Mangabo were the top six, seven, eight and nine, respectively.

Cadet Jervis Musni Ramos ranked first, while Cadets Ferdinand Mark Haguiling Lagchana, Christian Cuario Albus and Salvador Formanes Pidlaoan placed fourth, fifth and 10th, respectively.

Carisusa, 25, a graduate of Bachelor of Science, hails from Dalingding Sur in Medellin, Cebu. Her father is a sugarcane and corn farmer and is also raising hogs back home, while her mother is a housewife, formerly working in a daycare center.

Pabilario, 22, is from Barangay Baliwagan, San Enrique town in Negros Occidental. She will be following the footprints of her father, who is also a police officer.

Garan, 22, is a native of Cumadcad, Castilla in Sorsogon, where her parents are running a business.

Capule, 22, came from Sitio Quitos, Barangay Dugong, M’lang in North Cotabato. Her parents already passed away, but she used this as an inspiration and motivation to finish the class.

De Los Santos is a 26–year-old graduate of Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Alcala in Cagayan Valley. Her father is a farmer, while her mother already passed away.

Mangabo, the top 9 of the class,, is a 27-year-old graduate of criminology from San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. Her father is a farmer, while her mother is a housewife.

The PNPA Sansiklab or Sandigan ng Mamamayan na may Sigasig na Itaguyod ang Kapayapaan at Ipaglaban ang Bayan class of 2019 consists of 201 cadets -- 154 male and 47 female.

They are set to graduate Friday, March 22, in a ceremony, which will led by President Rodrigo Duterte at the PNPA campus in Silang, Cavite.

About 138, including 114 male and 24 female, will be joining the Philippine National Police, while 41 -- 25 male and 16 female -- will be joining the Bureau of Fire Protection.

The rest -- 15 men and seven women -- will be the new members of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. (SunStar Philippines)