The Interview: Audrey Hansford

What is your job title?

Audrey has multiple jobs at the moment,  these jobs are, a police clerk, a part-time investigative assistant to GUI (General Investigations Unit), member of the Union (Director of civilian and maintenance workers) and finally she is a member of the Health and Safety committee.

What is your job description?

Audrey again has many roles inside and out of her office, here is a list of the super cool she gets to do for her job she handles the input of fare infraction notices, she prepares court documents for disclosure to crown council, she processes criminal fingerprints. and criminal records, works switchboard duties which is equivalent of reception, she deals with complaints being. made at the front counter, she has general clerical duties, as well as on the health and safety committee, she prepares documents in GUI for electronic disclosure to crown council, and finally she is a member of the union executive.

What are the duties and tasks that you preform at. your job?

Basically every task or duty that Audrey has in her hands is everything that I just named in her job description.

What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas?

a) Training 

Audrey completed all of her workplace training for becoming certified.

b) Education

Several different courses to further gain knowledge and experience in her field. These also give her the tools to teach other people some of the things that she has learned while working for different police agencies not only in Vancouver, but in Toronto where she grew uppitiest as well.

c) Experience

Audrey began her career in policing at the young age of 19 working in Toronto as a dispatcher. She later moved to Vancouver at the age of 28,  and began working at the Vancouver Police Department building known as Ecomm, where she was a dispatcher for the police as well. She later transitioned to Transit Police where she has been working for the last 18 months. All together she has had a career in policing for nearly 28 years.

d) Skills and attributes (personal qualities)

Audrey has many skills, a few of her strongest are…

-being Inquisitive

-being forward thinker

-Having amazing attention to details

Audreys kind heart and drive to protect the people of the lower mainland and other metropolitan cities have been the driving force behind her lengthly career in the world of policing and the vital roles she has played along the along the way.

What are some of the things you like about this job?

Audrey likes many different aspects of her job that she really enjoys, but a few that have been her favourites throughout the years are, her fantastic coworkers, being given the challenge of solving a problem in her community, and learning about new things everyday on the job.She also enjoys that she is given constant opportunities to improve upon herself so she can the best she can in her current position. Finally, partaking in getting and giving justice, and making sure whatever happened won’t happen again.

What are some things that you dislike about this job?

Audrey said that something she would change about her current job is that she is mainly working all weekdays which is something she is not used to since throughout her past positions she has had a four days on and four days off.