Indian American Sikh Gursoach Kaur : First Turbaned Female Officer in US Law Enforcement
Gursoach Kaur is 22
and completely badass. This Indian-American is the first turban-wearing Sikh woman in the NYPD. She graduated from the New York Police Academy and became the force’s first
turban wearing recruit. There are just under 2000 Sikh police officers in the
NYPD, of them 10 are women but only one, Gursoch, wears a turban.
Her recent achievement has been widely praised across the
Sikh community in the U.S. The Sikh
Officers Association of New York City tweeted a photo of Kaur celebrating her
presence in the force. Gursoch wants to become a full-pledged police officer in
the NYPD.’We are the eyes and ears of the community,’ she told Desi Talk. ‘I go
on parades, am controlling traffic, making sure everybody is safe.’
America
has half a million Sikh community people living there. Gursoch said to PTC news
that women shouldn’t think they are any less than men“Wherever men can work,
we too can work there. God has given us equal rights,” she says.
Gursoch
wears the NYPD symbol in the front of her blue turban. In 2016 a massive
lobbying by the Sikh community was consented to, which permitted wearing of the
badge on the turban.
“It was important to me that as a member of the Sikh community,
I too could share the importance of our community to the world.”
‘Officer Kaur will make all Sikhs around the world proud! By the
community seeing officer Kaur wearing a turban and in uniform they will feel
nothing but pride, seeing one of their own serving her community,’ Delare
Rathour, NYPD officer said.
Female Sikhs do not traditionally wear the turban, only some do
in India and Canada. However women are turn pro-choice and making their own
decisions about how they would like to wear their religion on their sleeve.
For the first time, Sikhs in the US will be counted as a
separate ethnic group in the 2020 Census as per reports.
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