Hi my name is Neil Ashton and I'm
Detective Chief Superintendent with
responsibility for local investigations,
safeguarding and criminal justice here
in Lancashire Constabulary. Well there is
three key elements to what my job is and
the portfolio that I'll lead upon. So
local investigations covers a multitude
of things in each of our areas in our
big towns around Lancashire. So local
investigations will look at serious and
complex crime investigation from
assaults, to robberies, to serious sexual
offences, rape investigations and also
homicides. We also look at proactive
investigations so that would be
targeting organised crime groups, drug
dealers, human trafficking, child sexual
exploitation for example, so it's really
diverse in that element. One of the
biggest challenges I face is making sure
that we've got sufficient people with
the right skills to do a really
effective job and make sure we can look
after vulnerable victims really well and
support them through the criminal
justice and get to a resolution where
we've brought the perpetrators to
justice and they've got some real
satisfaction from the work we've done to support them.
There is a huge degree of satisfaction
knowing that we've been able to help
people in times of crisis, they call the
cops when they need them we go there
we shy away from nothing. We will support people through their most difficult
times of their lives and to be able to
do that really effectively and see them
come out of the other end of that ordeal
in a really positive way often is one of
the most satisfying things you can
imagine.
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