{"id":31691,"date":"2019-09-04T13:37:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=31691"},"modified":"2024-07-02T17:12:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:12:17","slug":"purshotam-aruwani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=31691","title":{"rendered":"A summer in public safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Carolina senior Purshotam Aruwani started his policy and strategic planning summer internship in the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS), he expected to have a traditional desk job, sitting at a computer all day. Instead, he found himself meeting with folks all over downtown Raleigh, touring a county jail and presenting his own research findings to supervisors and colleagues.<\/p>\n

\"Purshotam
Purshotam Aruwani at his desk at the N.C. Department of Public Safety<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aruwani, who is from Franklin, North Carolina, spent much of his summer gathering and reviewing public safety policy comparisons from other states. His work focused on identifying gaps in current DPS policies to anticipate future problems and design preemptive policy solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve met with different people from various departments to get their feedback and worked to build policies that reflect their needs as well as the needs of the department,\u201d he said. \u201cI learned it\u2019s a very lengthy process to start a policy from scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike Daniska, director of the DPS office of policy and strategic planning, supervised Aruwani during his internship. Daniska says he treated Aruwani more as a full-time employee than an intern\u2014and that Aruwani was up for the challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really threw him into a lot of the day-to-day stuff that any of us would be doing,\u201d Daniska said. \u201cReviewing and providing feedback on policies, strategic planning, reaching out to stakeholders, building emergency evacuation planning stuff\u2014he did a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mike Daniska, left, and Purshotam Aruwani, right, outside the N.C. Department of Public Safety Office<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aruwani, a biology and political science double major, was excited to find that he could work on policies that directly impact people around the state. For example, one of his biggest projects was in the adult corrections agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve gotten to attend a lot of meetings relating to that specific field,\u201d Aruwani said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot going on with revising the prison system, promoting activities that reduce (the) recidivism rate, finding organizations or other ways to help adjust back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aruwani knows service will remain an important part of his senior year at Carolina: He\u2019ll be the programming chair for the SMART mentoring program, a partnership between the Carolina Center for Public Service and Volunteers for Youth. Though he\u2019s not certain of his career path, his tentative plan is to try out private-sector consulting for his first job and perhaps move into government work later.<\/p>\n

\u201cState government is something I\u2019ve always been interested in, always wanted to become more involved in,\u201d he said. \u201cThat level of experience, having room to grow in my professional understanding, getting to work with officials\u2014it was all a new experience for me. These past few months have really set me up to work in this field later on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This N.C. Department of Public Safety APPLES summer internship was made possible through a partnership with the <\/em>UNC Institute of Politics<\/em><\/a>. CCPS is grateful to IOP and to DPS for their partnership!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Post by Carolina Center for Public Service<\/a><\/p>\n

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