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Country feels with city crimes: What it’s like being a police detective in Bristol’s Bridgewater ward

17th August, 2022

Country feels with city crimes: What it’s like being a police detective in Bristol’s Bridgewater ward

Wednesday 17 August 2022

Detective Constable Elisabeth Dane joined Avon and Somerset Police in 2019, via the first ever cohort of Police Now’s National Detective Programme.

She is working in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the Bridgewater area of Bristol, and has dealt with investigations around internet crime, child abuse, county lines drug rings and more.

Hear more from Elisabeth here, where she speaks to TargetJobs about the challenging but rewarding realities of rural policing and Police Now’s National Detective Programme.