Mandeep Kaur: Single mom who rose from door-to-door sales to NZ’s first female Indian-origin cop
Mandeep Kaur: Single mom who rose from door-to-door sales to NZ’s first female Indian-origin cop Many women give up on the ir childhood dreams especially if they had a failed marriage and single mother responsibilities. Not 52-year-old Mandeep Kaur. Hers is a story of grit, determination, perseverance and eventual glory: A girl who could barely speak English lands ‘ Down Under ’ , does door-to-door selling , becomes a taxi driver and discovers her true calling in a chance conversation with a passenger . Years later, she becomes New Zealand’ s first – and highest-ranked – female police officer of Indian origin. Mandeep Kaur on her wedding day in 1986. Humble beginnings Hailing from Punjab ’s Malwa region , Kaur was an 18-year-old final-year student of sociology and political science when she had an arran...