Introduction: In my assignment I will explain in detail one chosen job in the Uniformed Services. The job that I chose to talk about is in the Police Service and is about “forensic scientist “. In my work I will include details about their daily routine and what is their role in the Police Service.
The role of the forensic scientists in the Police Service is that they provide scientific evidence for use in courts of law to support the prosecution or defence in criminal and civil investigations. Their main role is to search for evidence and to put the events in the order that they happen.
When they arrive at a crime scene after everything happen they have to look after evidence such as: blood and other body fluids, hairs, fibres from clothing, paint and glass fragments, tyre marks, flammable substances used to start fires, analysing fluid and tissue samples for traces of drugs and poisons, analysing handwriting, signatures, ink and paper, recovering data from computers, mobile phones and other electronic equipment. Most of the evidences are usually presented in writing as a formal statement but the forensic scientists may have to go court to give their evidence in person.
As every job that haves positive and negative part the forensic scientists are included as well. One bad thing for the forensic scientist is that they know that they do directly contribute to the capture of dangerous people. As I said above there may happen when a forensic scientists have to give the evidences in person and during the case in the court a relative or a friend of the criminal that is the offender can see the scientist and could harm him in the future in case the offender goes to jail.
A negative aspect of this job is the environment that you work in. Both forensic scientists who work in the lab and those who visit crime scenes face potentially dangerous work environments. Much of the analysis that they do depends on