An Indo-Canadian Sikh has been unanimously elected as the head of Peel Police. Amrik Singh Ahluwalia was voted as the new chair of Peel Police Services Board after receiving backing from Brampton Mayor Linda Jeffrey and Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie. A business leader with extensive background in manufacturing and petrochemicals, Ahluwalia has organised several youth camps and served as president of Sikh Society, Calgary. He is a volunteer with Seva Food Bank, Mississauga.
“My first thoughts are, what a wonderful country we live in,” Ahluwalia told media after unanimous vote. He recalled that he arrived in Canada decades ago “with USD 7 in my pocket”, Ahluwalia said he couldn’t have fathomed at the time that one day he would be bestowed with this “honour” and responsibility. “I am honoured. This is a great responsibility, I take with humility and with a sense of purpose that I want to do my very best,” he said, adding that the board and the force would work to improve things “collaboratively”.
Ahluwalia was first appointed by the provincial government to the board in February 2011 and re-appointed for a second term in April 2014.
After Navdeep Singh Bains and Harjit Singh Sajjan, who became the first Sikh cabinet ministers in Canada, Ahluwalia is the third Indo-Canadian to rise in the country’s government affairs.
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