Ivy Uche Okoronkwo holds the enviable record as the first female officer
to be appointed Commissioner of Police for a state command and that was
when she served in trouble-pruned Ekiti State.
She is also the
first woman to head a zonal command in the 148-year history of the Force
as she currently presides over the affairs of Zone 7 Police
Headquarters at Abuja, overseeing operations in the Federal Capital
Territory, Niger and Kaduna states.
Ivy,a native of Arochukwu in
Abia State, enlisted in the police as Cadet Assistant Superintendent on
August 1, 1978 after her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Criminology at
the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1977.
On November 3, 2007,
she was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Women in Nigeria and she is
the president of Women Police Officers in West Africa.
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