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I've always been interested in policing, from a very young age, I've always watched all those tv cop shoes that you see on tv
and then as things progressed I worked in various kind of corporate organisations,
but the police service kind of appealed to me more, so I moved in to working for the police in a media role.
In my job I work for Corporate Communications, I handle the media,
I do proactive stories and all our good news, we plan initiatives, events, that sort of thing.
I've worked here now for about 4 months.
I'm also a Special Constable for the Force and I've been doing that for 18 months
and I previously worked for Devon and Cornwall Constabulary for two years.
My best experience has come recently. We had a missing person,
and, because I deal with the press, I was able to help the officers involved
make appeals to the public to try and find this missing person,
so being able to actually help the family directly, and try and find this person had some good job satisfaction for me.
One of the worst sides of my job is the sheer volume of work that we have to deal with
things constantly change in the police day by day and we're constantly having to move and be flexible.
I think my family are quite proud that - the things that I do within the police force,
I'm a Special Constable as well so my mum was initially worried,
but she now realises the good work that comes out of it, and, yeah, I think they're very proud.
I would recommend it as a career to others and I already have to several people,
just because of the sheer variation, freedom that you have within the job,
you take responsibility for what you do and you have the chance to succeed.
One of the most unusual things about working for the police is the variation of things that you can do in the day,
so I will go from talking to Top Gear on the phone about filming our police helicopter,
to trying to find a £5,000 violin called "Mathilda" and putting a press release out,
to going through a drugs warrant and following the officers in
while they bring out all the offenders.