Respected VPD Cop Kal Dosanjh Jumps To Politics As Part Of Rasode’s Council Team

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SURREY – Kalwinder “Kal” Dosanjh has been tough as nails all his life, growing up in Delta as a young Sikh kid who kept his hair and had to deal with the bullies. It prepared him for the mean streets of Vancouver when he decided to go into policing after graduating from post-secondary studies.

All those life lessons should come in handy for the clean-cut, beloved Vancouver Police Department (VPD) detective, who’s decided to give politics a go as part of upstart Surrey mayoral candidate Barinder Rasode’s One Surrey team of council candidates.

Rasode also jumped miles ahead of her opponents on the crime-safety agenda with a real-life crime fighter in Dosanjh, who’s faced some of his toughest spiritual, mental and physical tests on the mean streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

“I’ve thought about politics a lot lately and this opportunity to be part of the change in my own city was just so right that I couldn’t simply pass up, even as much as I may have secretly wanted to, given my current police work,” Dosanjh told the LINK in an exclusive interview in disclosing his candidacy.

Dosanjh was two minded about running initially as he had to get clearances from the Vancouver police department as well as sort out other things before he could focus on the campaign that has already begun a month back with his opponents already putting up signs ahead of tomorrow’s unofficial non-sign period. He will be officially filing his papers Friday.

He might be a newcomer to politics but Dosanjh’s community outreach work is second to none and his candidacy will be an eye opener for many of his foes and friends.

“I’m in this work my community and my larger community of Surrey,” Dosanjh said. “I’m well aware of what I’m going to be facing but let me tell you after what I have gone through in life and on my job, I’m prepared for all scenarios.”

Dosanjh absolutely thrives on everything he does. He made it his mission to bring order to the chaos and in the process helping to save lives when he worked in the downtown eastside while kicking out the scumbag drug dealers and other low life criminals who exploit the vulnerable and those who can only be classified as “lost souls” at society’s fringe.

Dosanjh is veteran member of the VPD, currently a detective with the domestic violence unit of the department, with 14 years of service and well experienced to handle the rough, yet sensitive nature of his job.

Dosanjh was born at Surrey memorial hospital and grew up in North Delta, where his family lived. He attended Delta Secondary school before studying criminology and psychology at Simon Fraser University, from where he graduated with a double degree. He decided to go into policing because it was a lifelong passion