A senior Nigerian official says women in displaced camps in the northeast of the country will feel more comfortable following the deployment of police women.
To some women here, she's become a heroine, dispensing much needed rough justice, but a leading campaign group against sexual harassment has condemned the brutal tactics.”
But Fairlee thinks about the constant injustices that communities of color face daily and how she has never met a police officer who is both Black and a woman.
Last Sunday evening, when the young policewoman was getting her hair done, three armed men burst into the hairdresser's, emptied the cash register and began to rob the customers.