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May 08, 2004
The day job
As you may have guessed, I have a day job from Monday to Friday. It involves teaching/training/developing - or whatever the current "buzz" word is - mature students in the police and emergency services.
The job includes teaching people to do proper fire investigations, and this, in turn, involves turning the scene above into something more like this ...
and then into this ....
This is what I spent time on in the last couple of weeks doing to four similar units - it's amazing how much frustration you can unload on this. I have an assistant who is becoming a real artist at setting up these scenes - we do nine of these courses every year - and share them with the police, so there's plenty of evidence to generate as well.
The students have a real challenge, but, I am very proud to say, that, after a week of listening to leading experts in forensic investigation, joint agency work and forensic pathology, chemistry, and explosion scene examination, with lots of hands on exercises - which keep the staff even busier than the students - they have a very good success rate in the scenes.
The proof of the pudding is always in the result in the field - and the feedback is that the detection rates are going up.
The best bit is that I learn something new each and every time we burn - but, I better not let the managers in on that - it might be construed as a benefit!
Posted by The Gray Monk at May 8, 2004 10:14 AM
Comments
I am always impressed by how much the forensic people can work out and it is good to know that they are learning from an expert :-)
Just in case your boss forgot to say it - "Thanks". You are helping make the world a better place.
Posted by: Ozguru at May 8, 2004 12:36 PM