“Most women and men believed that a woman could not head the police”

Olha Svitlychna is 29 years old. She has been building her career in the security sector for five years now. Olha was born in Mariupol. She studied in Zaporizhzhia. Having completed her studies in 2014, she returned to her hometown. At the age of 24, she became a Commissioner for Human Rights appointed by the Head of the National Police.