What is your main area of expertise?
Previous experience of crime scene investigation and managing police scientific support services. More recently, strategic planning and coordination of national forensic programmes and projects.
How do you help the FCN's stakeholders in policing and beyond?
Providing a strategic link between the FCN and senior stakeholders in police forensics, NPCC, APCC and Home Office, to ensure the activities that the FCN undertakes are aligned and helps meet the key priorities and challenges they face.
Which piece of work delivered in the FCN are you proudest of?
It would be unfair to single out any specific area of work. I am very proud of all the hard work of the FCN staff and teams and of the high levels of professionalism shown in their daily work.
What is your favourite part of your role?
Seeing how brilliantly the FCN teams as whole, deliver against the stated objectives and the high quality of the products produced, together with receiving words of thanks and praise from stakeholders about the hard work of the teams.
What was your first job in policing or forensics?
Scenes of Crime Officer (SOCO) in the MPS in 1984.
How did you get into a career in forensics?
Responded to a random job advertisement for SOCOs, placed by the MPS in the ‘local’ Croydon Advertiser newspaper!
What do you like to do outside of work?
Attending motor racing events such as F1, British Touring Cars and British Super Bikes.