What is your main area of expertise?
I support the senior leadership team by coordinating & managing diaries, arranging meetings, conferences, travel & anything else that needs organising. I also support our wider team & stakeholders to ensure their areas of business / meetings are offered support as and when required.
I provide the link between the FCN & external agencies & organisations, I am probably the ‘go to’ person on the team for most internal & external enquiries and over the years I have made some wonderful contacts in many Police Forces (AKA the PA network) When a colleague has a query, If I can’t answer it, I always know who the best person would be to contact, to get the information.
What is your favourite part of your role?
It may sound cheesy when someone says ‘the people’ but it’s true. I am very fortunate to work for the FCN, alongside a team of so many amazing people who are all brilliantly clever, funny, kind & are always happy to help or assist you when asked.
What was your first job in policing or forensics?
I first started my policing journey in 1998 working at Nottinghamshire Police HQ as an admin clerk, I then moved to another admin role within the Fingerprint Bureau (back in the days when all cases were paper files). I was responsible for keeping the tens of thousands of cases filed correctly, I also manned the incoming calls from Police Officers asking for case updates. During this time, I learned so much about Fingerprints / DNA & crime scenes, and to this day I still find it fascinating how a single strand of hair, or a fingerprint, or an almost invisible fibre from a material can paint a picture of what happened at the scene of a crime & also who was there at the time.