In August 2006, Yolanda Tanigue, a licensed social worker, was appointed a police chief superintendent, a position equivalent to the rank of a one-star military general.
Tanigue, concurrent head of the Children Concerns Division (WCCD) and executive officer of the Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM), is the first female officer to become a general in the PNP’s 15-year history, after police Brig. Gen. Luisa Dimayuga of the defunct Integrated National Police (INP).
Gen. Tanigue spent most of her 26 years in police force at the Women and Children Concerns Division (WCCD), hearing out and helping women and children who have suffered abuse, mostly sexual in nature.
She was a former police chief of San Pablo City and task group commander under Task Force Zebra, which was responsible for operations and investigations against establishments that cater to prostitution.
She is a licensed social worker who earned her degree from Mabini College in Daet, Camarines Norte. She joined the PNP as a non-uniformed personnel and later underwent training that allowed her to join the police organization on lateral entry with the rank of lieutenant.
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