KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, has expressed delight that for the first time a woman, Corporal Arlene McBean, has been selected Chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation (JPF).

Corporal McBean, who was selected by the executive body of the federation yesterday at its annual conference at the Moon Palace Jamaica Grande Resort in St Ann, is the first female member of the force to assume the position of chairman of the JPF in its 75 -year history.

She is the training and development director on the organisation’s executive board.

Grange said that she is leading all the women of Jamaica in congratulating Woman Corporal McBean “and I am inviting all the men to join us in saluting this wonderful achievement which represents breaking of the class ceiling of the Federation.”

“As I wish Woman Corporal McBean well in the performance of her new duties, I am confident about the service she will give because recognition of her abilities must have factored in her selection to be the head of the Federation at this time, after 75 years of male domination of the position,” Grange said.