More female police officers will be promoted to branch and unit heads in line with the policy of having 30 per cent women's quota in the police's policy and decision-making process, said inspector-general of police Musa Hassan.

He said as such the police would increase the number of women in the police force from 11 per cent (of 103,494 personnel) to 20 per cent in five years' time.

Female police officers will be considered for senior posts if they are committed to their duties, he told reporters after opening the Senior Female Police Officers Conference 2009 in Kuala Lumpur today.

Three are seven senior female police officers - three deputy commissioners, two senior assistant commissioner I and three senior assistant commissioner II.

On the dumping of wild boar heads at two mosques in Petaling Jaya recently, he said the police had taken 20 statements besides CCTV recordings from the mosques and the surrounding areas.

- Bernama