 My name is Constable Jasmine Rainer from the Gold Coast Rapid Action Patrols Unit, currently attached to the Gold Coast Criminal Investigation Branch. Also I did my first year at the Wreckliffe Police Station. I was really lucky that I had some really good field training officers. They showed me the ropes. So I spent a year in Brisbane that I got posted to the Gold Coast. Then I volunteered to transfer to the Gold Coast Rapid Action Patrols Unit. Even as a general duties officer, there's room for movement. Here I'm getting a lot of experience, experience search violence, focusing on firearms possession attended for use within offences of violence. We look to practically target firearms and persons utilizing firearms to further their criminal enterprises. When I'm not wearing the blue uniform, I'm often wearing the green uniform. I'm an Army reservist and I work as a light artillery gunner. So I go away a couple of times a year with the Army. One of the benefits that the QPS affords is military leave. So I get 36 days of military leave a year. On my days off, I take the dogs to the beach. I take the motorbike for a ride. Or if I'm having a lazy day or I sit on the couch and binge watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Some of the realities of the job is there is a lot of paperwork. It's part and parcel with every job you go to where there's a traffic crash, violence incident, repairing the search lines. I don't like being behind the desk, but it's a necessary evil. One of the more testing aspects of the job is probably dealing with a way that people don't always treat you with respect. Another one of the realities is you do deal with some confronting stuff. Practically though, they prepare you at the Academy. They cover all the different jobs that you go to, but you don't really start to really develop as an officer until your first year. We were out on the road and that's when you really start learning. The reason I joined the Queensland Police Service is because I wanted to make a difference in the community. Also wanted a job where I could be physically active and not always stuck behind a desk. But mostly I just wanted to catch bad guys.