From the holy city of Amritsar, India to the Mecca of International Peace, the United Nations, to challenging social injustices ...this is the inspiring journey of the first woman in the Indian Police Service. Dr. Kiran Bedi is India s first and highest ranking woman officer who joined the Indian Police Service in 1972. Her experience and expertise includes more than 35 years of tough and innovative policing, within India and outside. She has worked with the United Nations as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations. She has represented India at the United Nations, and in international forums on crime prevention, drug trafficking and abuse, prison reform, women s issues and peace-keeping operations. Recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award (also called the Asian Nobel Prize), and several other decorations, Dr. Bedi is the author of four books and a regular columnist with leading dailies, newspapers and magazines. She is also a very sought after speaker on various social, professional and leadership issues at national and international forums. She is the founder of two Non-Governmental Organizations, Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation, that provide drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation, residential schooling for children of prisoners, in addition to education, training, counselling, and health care to the urban and rural poor.