{"id":12657,"date":"2012-12-13T15:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T01:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=12657"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T02:22:35","slug":"uh-manoa-campus-security-names-first-female-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/13\/uh-manoa-campus-security-names-first-female-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa campus security names first female captain"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa’s Campus Security and Emergency Management Department<\/a> appointed of its first female captain, Alberta J.K. Pukahi<\/strong>. She is a 25-year veteran of the university’s security office, where for the last eight years Pukahi served as a sergeant and investigated cases of the most sensitive and complex nature, including sexual assaults.<\/p>\n

Capt. Pukahi’s immediate focus is on training, operations and rebuilding a team dedicated to service. She oversees a security staff of approximately 40, about 25 percent of them women.<\/p>\n

Pukahi came to UH<\/abbr> Mānoa in 1987 as a security professional from the private sector and, inspired by the first UH<\/abbr> Mānoa commencement ceremony she witnessed, made the commitment to pursue a college degree. “While at Kahuku High School, I was not the most serious student, but the tuition waivers available to university employees gave me the opportunity to go back to school,” says Pukahi.<\/p>\n

She earned an associate degree in administration of justice from Honolulu Community College<\/a> in 2000, and a bachelor’s in public administration from UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span><\/a> in 2010.<\/p>\n

Pukahi was also recognized as one of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s Top Cops in 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa news release<\/a> to learn more about Pukahi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alberta J.K. Pukahi appointed UH<\/abbr> Mānoa campus security’s first female captain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[136,9],"class_list":["post-12657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-campus-security","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12657"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152686,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions\/152686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}