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MADAM Zuraidah Abdullah, 47, leaves Mendaki tomorrow after serving as its CEO since January 2007.
She was the second woman to head the 27-year-old self-help group for the Malay-Muslim community. The first was primary school principal Rashidah Abdul Rasip, who headed Mendaki from 2005 to 2006.
Madam Zuraidah will hand over the mantle of leadership to yet another woman - Madam Moliah Hashim, 51, a school cluster superintendent at the Education Ministry.
An Assistant Commissioner of Police, Madam Zuraidah returns to the Singapore Police Force as Commander of its Training Command and deputy chief executive of the Home Team Academy.
The civil engineering graduate from the Nanyang Technological Institute was the first Malay woman graduate to join the police force in 1986.
She rose to the top ranks after serving various stints in investigations, training, research, planning and operations.
Before her Mendaki stint, she was commander of the largest of the six land divisions, the Jurong Police Division.
In 2007, she became the first woman on the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) board in its 40 years. She also sits on the Health Promotion Board and the Malay Heritage Centre Board.
MADAM Zuraidah Abdullah, 47, leaves Mendaki tomorrow after serving as its CEO since January 2007.
She was the second woman to head the 27-year-old self-help group for the Malay-Muslim community. The first was primary school principal Rashidah Abdul Rasip, who headed Mendaki from 2005 to 2006.
Madam Zuraidah will hand over the mantle of leadership to yet another woman - Madam Moliah Hashim, 51, a school cluster superintendent at the Education Ministry.
An Assistant Commissioner of Police, Madam Zuraidah returns to the Singapore Police Force as Commander of its Training Command and deputy chief executive of the Home Team Academy.
The civil engineering graduate from the Nanyang Technological Institute was the first Malay woman graduate to join the police force in 1986.
She rose to the top ranks after serving various stints in investigations, training, research, planning and operations.
Before her Mendaki stint, she was commander of the largest of the six land divisions, the Jurong Police Division.
In 2007, she became the first woman on the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) board in its 40 years. She also sits on the Health Promotion Board and the Malay Heritage Centre Board.
