a cognizable social group under the INA. See Velarde, 140 F.3d at 1305 (persecution of a woman because of her former job as the bodyguard to the daughters of then-President Alan Garcia was on account of her membership in a particular social group as well as her political opinion); Chanco v. INS, 82 F.3d 298, 302 (9th Cir.1996) (“reprisals against former military officer can provide a basis for granting asylum”); Montecino v. INS, 915 F.2d 518, 520 (9th Cir.1990). Persecution occurring because a person is a current member of a police force or the military, however, is “not on account of one of the grounds enumerated in the Act. (Race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion).” Aguilar-Escobar v. INS, 136 F.3d 1240, 1241 (9th Cir.1998) (<HOLDING>) (footnote omitted); Arriaga-Barrientos v. INS,
holding that government informants are not members of a particular social group holding that persecution of a woman because of her government job or her husbands position as a police officer was not on account of a particular social group holding that a petitioners unwillingness to return must be based upon persecution or a wellfounded fear of persecution on account of race religion nationality membership in a particular social group or political opinion   holding that persecutors statements indicating that they had chosen her because of her fathers relationship to the philippine government constituted persecution on account of an imputed political opinion holding that government material witnesses do not constitute a particular social group