His name is Rafael Espinosa Nápoles and he has been a police officer for 22 years, a time when he has acquired a great knowledge of life and its circumstances, people with their problems, and their virtues.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- “I am trained by the academy. When I finished the Camilo Cienfuegos military school, I entered the Captain San Luis Higher Institute of Police Sciences from which I graduated as a criminal instructor. I worked for 19 years in different positions in the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), and for the last three years I have worked in the police.”

Espinosa Nápoles is a lieutenant colonel, and he is now the second chief of the station of the National Revolutionary Police in the municipality of Las Tunas where every day he delivers the best of his talent to solve problems that affect society.

“I am 39 years old, so I have given all my youth to military life, with which I am very satisfied. This is a job that entails a lot of commitment, responsibility, and much more in these complex times; but we do it with tremendous pride.

“Being a police officer is also a challenge because you always have to fulfill each mission with duty and great demands on yourself and others, without losing sight of the fact that we are part of the people and, as such, we have to behave with all the ethics of the world.”

Since he was a little boy, Rafael always wanted to be a soldier. And now, after 22 years of profession, he feels that he chose the right path; although it has been a difficult life, he enjoys it every time a case is resolved and people express their gratitude. Maintaining citizen tranquility and defending the Revolution is his greatest commitment to his people, the one from which he cannot detach himself for a moment.