Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo

Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo is a Brazilian police officer.[1] In 1998 she joined the Rio de Janeiro Military police, and in 2000 she began working in street repression operations and police battalions.[2] In 2007 she was kidnapped and attacked, but she escaped and managed to arrest three of her kidnappers.[3][4] In 2008 she was placed in charge of the first “Police Pacification Unit” (UPP) in Rio de Janeiro, in the favela of Santa Marta.[5][6][7] As of January 2014 she is the chief of the Police Pacification Unit in Rocinha, which she became chief of in 2013 after its officers were accused of being involved in the disappearance of a local man.[8][9]

She received a 2012 International Women of Courage award, and Veja named her Defender of the City.[10][11]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/programs/iwoc/2012/bio/index.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/programs/iwoc/2012/bio/index.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/10390718/Meet-Major-Pricilla-the-woman-pacifying-Rios-favelas-ahead-of-the-World-Cup.html
  4. ↑ http://english.cntv.cn/2014/07/28/VIDE1406534650276811.shtml
  5. ↑ http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/programs/iwoc/2012/bio/index.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/10390718/Meet-Major-Pricilla-the-woman-pacifying-Rios-favelas-ahead-of-the-World-Cup.html
  7. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/26/voices-of-brazil-major-pricilla-de-oliveira-azevedo-police-chief
  8. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-27635554
  9. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/26/voices-of-brazil-major-pricilla-de-oliveira-azevedo-police-chief
  10. ↑ http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/programs/iwoc/2012/bio/index.htm
  11. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/26/voices-of-brazil-major-pricilla-de-oliveira-azevedo-police-chief