I am Jade Heredia.
I study Criminology and Forensic Science, and I have spent the last eight weeks
with Humberside Police.
as a placement.
I’m Megan Witty, and I’ve just done
a placement with Humberside Police through Hull Uni.
For a couple of years
now, we've been running a placement scheme with Hull University,
which gives students on a criminology degree in the third year
the opportunity to come and spend days with us
at Humberside Police visiting various different departments across the force
and to just get an understanding of what we do and importantly how we do it as well.
So when I applied to do Criminology and Forensic Science, I wanted to join
the police force to become a detective.
It’s opened my eyes to a lot more of what the police actually do in the back office side of it.
How much goes into a case before you even see it in
the media or taking actions onto an offender.
It's a really
effective way of,
for them talking to people on the ground that are doing the job that they do
to decide actually, is this something that you would recommend me doing
as a career?
One week they might go to the crime scene investigation department
and see what it's really like to go and deal with a crime scene,
then go from that one week to go into the Community Safety Unit,
spending time working with our staff, going out on engagement projects,
and then another week they might be sat in the,
in the gallery at Crown Court watching a murder trial go on.
They get the contacts.
They get to understand really what their day to day working life will be
and a foot in the door and a step closer to that for most of them.
It's a bit of a breeding ground
for us as well in terms of identifying talent and people for the future.
And I look back to my experience when I first joined the police.
It would have been great to have been able to come in and see how things worked.
They've done absolutely fantastically.
There's not one person that hasn't grown in confidence.
They will absolutely love it.
And it's confirmed that this is,
this is definitely the career path for me.
After talking to so many people
that work in the police, not just officers but police
staff as well
it's definitely put me onto the right path
that I want to be on.