Graeme Mitchell Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• As a CCTV Evidence Officer key responsibilities included:
• Collect and produce CCTV Evidence
• View CCTV footage, download and document key events
• Produce statements for court and attend court as an expert witness

London, England, United Kingdom

• As a Forensic Practitioner, I was responsible for providing impartial scientific evidence for the use in a court of law to assist the prosecution and defence in criminal investigations. To achieve this, daily tasks.
• Reporting other scientists work in my name.
• Peer-reviewing other scientists work.
• Taking initiative, extra responsibility and co-operating with senior staff and management.
• Mentoring, training and assisting less experienced staff members as well as encouraging good lab practice and passing on my scientific knowledge.
• Working on additional side projects such as intelligence gathering and drug profiling.

London, England, United Kingdom

• As a Reporting Officer, my main tasks included the following:
• Managing casework, meeting turn-around-times and targets in a high pressured environment whilst producing work to the highest quality.
• Taking sole responsibility of my own casework and written statements.
• Working and communicating with police officers from all over England and Wales.
• Working on a wide variety of controlled drugs from trace analysis to large seizures.
• Attending court cases to act as a professional expert witness and provide evidence.

London, England, United Kingdom

• As a Forensic Analyst, my main tasks included the following:
• Analysing a wide variety of samples such as powders, tablets, capsules and liquids using a number of presumptive and confirmatory techniques. These include colour tests, microscopy, macroscopy, TLC, FTIR, HPLC and GC-MS.
• Maintaining continuity, security and integrity throughout.
• Aiding and assisting senior members of the team.In this role, I was also trained in DNA and fingerprint preservation.

East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Analysing water and soil samples using a variety of techniques such as distillation, Ion Chromatography, TOC and BODs as well as measuring the pH and alkalinity.

Bsc Hons Forensic Investigation, Chemistry, First

Erasmus, Science

A 5 month Erasmus programme in Finland. Studying Chromatography, Spectrometry, Air Pollution and Finnish Culture & Society.