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When I was going through school I didn't know
exactly where I wanted to be, I was looking at the police
or the Defence Force. I pursued policing
and they told me potentially I might be too young. So I went and studied
Conservation Park Management at uni. I then worked
as a park ranger for a period and I still wanted to be a police officer, so I
applied. After I finished at the Academy I really enjoyed my time on general patrols.
And from there I had an interest in the forensic
area. I liked photography and I could develop those skills so that was an outside interest
for me.
The first full weeks of study was for crime visitation
and that's just attending house break and stolen cars.
And in the second level which was offered was a crime scene investigation
and then there was on the job training with that and mentoring.
The third level where I am now is the forensic response section.
Now I'm being trained in blood pattern analysis
and we're predominantly involved with major
crime incidents. There is no such thing as a typical shift.
I might travel down to the vehicle compound and
examine a vehicle, and I might be in the middle of
packaging exhibits from a crime scene and we get a phone call saying there's a
homicide in
Mount Gambier, so you know, we pack up our bags and fly to Mount Gambier and
might not be home for a day or two. It's quite a unique environment
and the people that I work with, we can be in quite demanding and
stressful situations every now and then.
I've had phone calls after work when we've been to stressful jobs.
Later on you just don't know how you're probably going to react so it's just nice to have someone ring up
and say
how are you.
There are so many areas within SAPOL that you can work and it's widely accepted
that within your time you will
do many roles. I was on patrols for five years and then the
opportunity arose for me to complete the crime scene course
and so I went in that direction. You're always going to start on patrols,
where you go from there just depends on you.
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