Delores Padilla (Rebeka Montoya)

Officer Delores Padilla is a fictional characters on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital. She has been portrayed by actress Rebeka Montoya since September 28, 2011.

Storylines
Delores first arrived in Port Charles as Dante Falconeri's new partner at the Port Charles Police Department. Delores is a very skilled officer having graduated at the top of her class at the police academy. When Dante got shot, Delores took over several of his cases to take the load off of him and give him time to recover, but once he came back to work, Dante and Delores began to clash at bit. They had a rough start but soon started to get to know one another and settle into being partners. Delores expressed having a hard time finding stability in her job, having been moved to nine different precincts in the last nine months and she believes that it has something to go with her being a woman. So she works hard, to prove that a woman can do just as well of a job as a man in their field. She is currently working with Dante to help solve the murder of Lisa Niles. She also took an interest in the case of a man who has been attacking ex-strippers. A few of Abby Haver's friends had been targets and Delores believed that the case wasn't getting the attention it deserved because of who the victims were. So she asked Dante to let her take that case on while he focused on the Lisa Niles murder case. Delores has also given some solicited counsel to Dante and his girlfriend Lulu Spencer about how to have a successful relationship in their line of work. Delores' husband is a construction worker who takes out of town jobs to bring in more income. He is out of town often, but Delores told Dante that she and her husband have an understanding and realize that both of their jobs are necessary and the distance is something that just can't be helped.