User:Lovewhatyoudo/s14

Chao Mo-ya (趙默雅, b. 1915 in Linqing, Shandong) is a specialist of fingerprint identification who work in the police of Nanking, China (?-1948) and then the police of Taiwan (1948-1980). When she retired from the Central Police University in 1980 as a two-star, three-stripe officer, she was the highest ranked women police in Taiwan history. Graduated in police academy in 1936, she featured in numerous case studies in the history of early women police in China as China only began to take women police students in 1930.

Early life
Chao was born into a wealthy family in Linqing, Shandong. Including herself, it was a family of 10 daughters and 1 son, making her only brother a frequent hostage target. She received two offers, one from the Beijing Normal University and the other from the 4th class of newly established Zhejiang Police Academy (浙江警官學校). Her father wrote two urgent telegrams (note that telegrams are available to the very rich at the time) to urge her to not be go to police academy because "having a women police will bring shame to our family". Yet she was determined to be a police after seeing so many hostage attempts of her brother.

She graduated in 1936. As Zhejiang Police Academy was the first police academy in China to take women (the first class admitted in 1930, graduated in August 1932), Chao turned out to be one of the prominent early women police in Chinese history.

Around 1946, she was the head of the fingerprint unit, criminal identification department, Capital Police Bureau (Nanking being the capital of China at the time). She achieved fame during 1948 Chinese vice presidential election when she found out the suspects of the home invasion of eventual Vice President Li Zongren. She turned to teaching from 1948 to 1980, in Central Police University.