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 MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - A New Jersey teacher is about to become Liberia's first female top cop, charged with rebuilding a police force in a nation ripped apart by a quarter century of war.
Her first act as national police chief, Beatrice Munah Sieh said Wednesday, will be issuing new badges and confiscating the old ones held by rebels, who have used the IDs to impersonate police and commit acts of torture and robbery.
Sieh, who was deputy director of police operations in the late 1990s but fled the West African country fearing for her life, was appointed to the top law and order post last month by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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