Forensic Science Day

 On the 11th of January 2011, my group and I took part in a forensic learning day; where we all were taught numerous forensic skills; that could help determine factors such as sex, age and nationality of someone just by their skeleton. 

For example, a males eye socket are usually square like, where a females are more rounded; however when people say 'you have your fathers eyes' this can be true as a female skull that we examined, had square eye sockets. 

Also male skulls are normally quite bigger than the female skulls, however this doesn't mean that men are smarter than women!

We were also taught how to rebuild a skeleton, the names of most bones in our skeletal structure and how to gather evidence from a crime scene.

All the skeletons that we examined were REAL! I took some pictures, however the person that took us for the day, said that it would be dishonourable to them if we posted them publicly.

Also, we did finger print matching, were you look at patterns in a finger print and link them up to other patterns in a different print to see if they match.

After the finger print matching, we were taught how to figure out someone's blood type, we were given real blood donated by the NHS to test on; we put different chemicals into a tray with some blood, and depending on how the blood reacted with the chemical determined what blood type it was.

The R.T.C

R.T.C Stands for 'Road Traffic Collision' this also used to be known as R.T.A 'Road Traffic Acident' however this was changed as it is not Terminally correct.

The R.T.C that took place at Chesterfield college was a simulated collision, to promote safe driving in young learners. Early in the morning, a transporter brought two totalled cars to Chesterfield college and unloaded them outside of college; staff and students then positioned the two cars as if the had collided. 

Our job as Public service students was to act as the Police would do if they were first at the scene, this includes scene preservation, traffic control, cordoning the area and controlling crowds.

When you attempt to restrict a persons rights to park in the car park, talk on their phone, smoke in designated areas and to walk in certain areas, people can get quite rebellious and aggressive; there were even reports of tutors swearing at our public service students for not letting them use the car park. This was because the car park was reserved for V.I.P's and deliveries only.

After we cleared the area, cordoned it off, stopped people from smoking, restricted traffic and calmed the area, all three public services came and demonstrated what they would do in an R.T.C. 

The fire brigade cut off the car roof and extracted the trapped driver and covered up the dead, the ambulance service gave aid to the injured and the police arrested the drunk driver and helped us with some people that refused to cooperate.

My role in the R.T.C, was in gold command as the main radio operator, I had to use my radio procedure skills to give instructions to my team, also making a few decisions along the way, such as refusing people into the car park keeping spaces open for V.I.P's.

Linnet Clough

Linnet Clough, was a residential trip that lasted for 3 days; it was used to show us a little bit of the first stage of training for public services. It was also used as a pass or fail entry into our course; however if you failed Linnet, you had to  redeem yourself at college by working hard.

Linnet Clough was very tough, physically, mentally and  most of all emotionally; everyday you wanted to stop and go home because you never really had a rest.

Typical Day;

5:00am | Get up, tidy room early for later room inspection (Make bed, fold clothes & polish boots)
6:00am | Be outside on parade in P.T kit ready for a run
8:30 | Breakfast (Very Nice)

9:00 | Room inspections (Best they'd seen)

9:45 | Fitness

12:15 | Dinner

13:00 | Drill

14:30 | Timed run (30min & 45min)

17:00 | Tea 

18:00 | Leadership Lesson
19:00 | Night X

20:30 | Room inspection

21:30 | Skitz

24:00 | Kit preparation (Ironing clothes and polishing boots) 

Night X | Night X was an exercise, that tested our teamwork, navigation and radio procedure skills; the story is that people were seeing stealing water from one of four water sources, our job was to find one water source each in groups, sit and wait until the water source was stolen from, report it and head back to HQ.

We had to sit and wait for about an hour until there were any sign of people, we also had to find good spots were we could not be seen; we also had to use good radio procedure and code words.

Skitz | Skitz is were groups have to put on 2 shows to the rest of the people at Linnet, this was to show our confidence; the 2 shows were a singing act and one act made up.

Passing out | On the last day of Linnet, we all lined up on parade, awaiting the staff to tell us of their decision whether you have passed or not; having my name shouted out was amazing, I have never felt so pleased, to know that all the hard work had paid off.

My Blog | What It's For

Hello, My name is Joshua Epworth and this is my Blog!

I will use this Blog to show evidence of my time at Chesterfield College, doing a Public Service National Diploma Course; which will hopefully give me a guide/insight of life in the Public Services.

I would eventually like to become a Military Police Officer, then return as a 'Civi' Police Officer. I enjoy doing things and 'getting out there', getting involved and getting in a bit of action; so i think that the military is the right career choice for me.

I will also be using this blog to show evidence of my practical assignment work, in Responding To Emergency Service Incidents.