 Look, I think protecting children is keeping kids safe. We deal with a lot of children that have been offended against and we feel and I feel that we give these kids a voice. Well to me it means ensuring every child feels safe all the time, both within their own home and in the community. But for me personally it means doing the best I can at my job to prevent crime against children. To me in my area in a local CPIU I daresay my concentration focuses on the victims of crime. We see it a lot even in a local area where we have people come forward with varying complaints of sexual abuse through to abuse at school, a lot of cyber bullying these days as well. Being a thank you letter from a victim child, I can't change what happened to them and it's heartbreaking but I can support them through the investigation process and secure a successful outcome which can be empowering to a victim child and their family. daresay my best day at work would have came towards Christmas last year. I'd spent a good couple of years involved with an 11 year old female victim. She had been basically sexually offended against by a stepfather for a period of four years so very young, very vulnerable. That court process, well following that person being charged and the pending court process which took nearly a year and a half. He was eventually found guilty and sentenced to nine years in jail. That lovely child decided to come in just prior to Christmas with a nice card saying thank you very much for what you did and yeah I was very grateful for that. Best day at work was probably today so basically we had a complaint just last week of a 16 year old girl that she had felt pregnant due to being raped. She revealed that there was an offender that was known to her and today we went out and I'm arrested that offender and today is before the court. I'm a marine biologist only because I love dolphins when I was younger. I always wanted to do this, a police officer so basically yeah and I got to stage when I was in my mid 40s and I thought if I don't do it now it's my last chance so I applied in 2010 and I got into the academy in August of 10 and we're here, yeah it's been fantastic. Well I grew up in a police family so I definitely always had an interest to follow Dad's footsteps. Certain things led to a different path for me though, I ended up in a trade doing electronics in the army for a good 16 years and then made the decision that that was no longer for me and I wanted that uniform in blue. Yeah well I've been doing it for like 15 years I couldn't imagine doing anything else. Someone's got to stand up for the most vulnerable.