 Hi, my name is Alyssa Finnegan. I'm a Sergeant of Police. I currently work as a fingerprint expert for the Goal Course region. I joined the Queensland Police Service in 2006. I was 31 years old at the time. I did three years at Surfers Paradise and then I got on the Scenes of Crime course, which took about three to four months. Once that's finished, I became a Scenes of Crime Officer on probation for 12 months. While attending most of the Scenes, I'm working in conjunction with other specialized areas such as Ballistic, Scientific, I became really interested in fingerprints and the science behind fingerprints. I put in an application when I saw that they were asking for applicants that took about eight or nine months before I got shortlisted. We do four years of intense course on the job training as well as knowledge-based and book-based training. That incorporated attending major Scenes. In the lab, you do things such as chemical enhancements using different chemicals on different surfaces. You do physical enhancement using powders and different methods. You also do use what we call the superglue chamber using the superglue to enhance certain materials. All that is also part of our knowledge base, so you also taught that information and how different chemicals react with different excretions from our bodies. We are also trained in court processes and how to give evidence as an expert. I get asked all the time, how can I become a police officer? And I usually say, speak to a police officer about what is required, the knowledge base that's required, the fitness base that's required and see whether or not it's something that you want to do and you're capable of doing because once you become a police officer, it doesn't just stop there.