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PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian man who was named police officer of the year in Western Australia once served in the force over here in the 1980s.
Sam Lim, 60, who is from Muar, Johor, however, quit the force because of other career prospects to become a dolphin trainer and later a businessman.
Top cop: Lim, holding a certificate of excellence, has been named police officer of the year in Western Australia.
Lim’s wife and children migrated to Perth in 2002, before he joined them three years later in October 2005.
“I had planned to retire but when I came to know the police here, they approached me and invited me to join the police force, ” he told Sin Chew daily in an interview.