This 23-year-old Dearborn resident, sworn in two weeks ago at City Hall as an ordinance enforcement officer, makes a splash far beyond her suburb.

Amal Chammout is this nation’s first uniformed police force member wearing a hijab, the Muslim head scarf.

That draws media coverage from PressTV of Iran (above), Morocco World News’ bureau in New York and Al Jazeera Media Network, which posts a two-minute English language video on Facebook that has more than 3.2 million viewings in just four days.

Chammout is the American-born daughter of parents who immigrated from Bahraich in southern Lebanon.

She was a Dearborn Police intern before advancing to a full-time job issuing parking tickets  and violations for littering, blocking sidewalks and other city ordinance violations.

“I’m just like any other officer here,” she tells Al Jazeera. “There’s no difference between me and anybody else. I’m just here to do my job.”

Police Chief Ronald Haddad tells the Moroccan news service that hiring Chammout, who plans to pursue a master’s degree in criminal justice, is “a huge step for the community, for the Arab and Muslim community in particular.”

At the same ceremony where Chammout was sworn in, three Arab Americans were among nine new officers joining the force. Slightly more than 40 percent of the city’s residents are Arab American..