PATIALA: Her long-cherished dream to become a police officer has come true. Twenty-year-old Roopam Sodhi from Patiala has got selected in Victoria police of Melbourne (Australia). After eight months of strenous training, Roopam completed the course and graduation ceremony was held in Victorian Police Academy, Melbourne on Saturday.
Her father Harinderjit Singh Sodhi, a manager with Punjab and Sindh Bank posted at Patiala, along with his wife Gunjeet Kaur attended the ceremony.
“She passed police exam eight months back and finally became a police officer on Saturday after completing her graduation from Victoria Police Academy. My parents went to Melbourne last week to attend the ceremony, but I could not due to my exams,” said Abjit Singh Sodhi, brother of Roopam, while interacting with this scribe at their house near Government College for Girls (GCG) of Patiala.
Relatives of Roopam said she went to Melbourne in 2005 after completing her graduation from the local GCG college.
She has done her masters in management from Melbourne University and then started teaching. She taught management students for more than two years before she became a permanent resident of Australia in 2009.
“Roopam is very hard-working. She was a topper in school and college. Though she started working as temporary employee after landing in Melbourne, I was always confident that she would do us proud one day,” said Pushpinder Singh Bhandari, her uncle.
Her family has plans to organize a grand function to celebrate the success of their daughter. “We will throw a huge party when Roopam comes to Patiala,” said Bhandari. Roopam married Kulbir, a businessman, in 2009.