{"id":4985,"date":"2020-02-10T22:13:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:10:40","slug":"a-man-a-plot-and-a-killer-of-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/a-man-a-plot-and-a-killer-of-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"A killer of a book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Trembling writes crime novels \u2013 and has an unusual advantage in doing so: he knows what happens when a body is discovered. He is a CSI \u2013 (Crime Scene Investigator) \u2013 formerly known as SOCOs. He is the one with the camera, picking up the tiny bits of evidence, armed with gloves.<\/p>\n

How did you get into that? Were you a police officer already?<\/p>\n

There was a time when most SOCO\u2019s (Scenes of Crime Officers) were ex-police officers, or ex-Forces. Often, they\u2019d been photographers in the RAF or Navy. But I found a different route in. I was already working for the police as an Admin Assistant when they opened up a few posts to internal transfers. These were for Assistant SOCOs, with the limited remit of examining vehicles only \u2013 they didn\u2019t have enough fully trained SOCOs to deal with all the low-level vehicle crime which was taking place then, so they created this post specifically to deal with it. I ended up staying in the job for fifteen years and eventually worked my way up to full S...<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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