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Officers create bridge between Indian-American community and Bakersfield Police Department
0Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives: This story is from September 17, 2021. November is Sikh Awareness and Appreciation month. A few years after 9/11, Sandeep Malhi was living in Long Beach and working as an intern with the Secret Service when he got a call from his parents who encouraged him to move home to become Bakersfield Police Department’s first – Punjabi police officer. Malhi, who had graduated from Fresno State with a degree in Criminology, was finishing his master’s degree and had dreams of working with the…
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