Chief Gloria Frank knows she has come so far, but acknowledges there is still much work to be done.
Gloria Frank has become the Port Authority Police Department's first woman 3-star chief in the agency's nearly 100 year history. Kemberly Richardson has the story.One woman is breaking barriers in law enforcement this Black History Month.
How things have changed over the years -- in 1915, ideal recruits were "husky men." But now Frank is the agency's first female 3-star chief and she is just getting started.In her Class of '98, there were 53 recruits and only three were women. Those are the pearls of wisdom she is passing along to today's officers who were just sworn in -- 24 women in a class of 129."We had to do things differently in how we recruit, trying to bring in more women, bring in more Brown and Black and others within the department," she said."Never wanted to be a police officer, never dreamt of being a police officer," Frank said.
"When I read the qualifications, I can do this, I can do it, I can run as fast and do pushups, sit-ups," she said.
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