Paul Andrews had been educated at Boarding school but left school without significant qualifications. His escapade with his friends where he pierced a gas bottle to make a flame thrower ended in disaster when it exploded and put him in hospital for a month hadn’t assisted in gaining qualifications.
Paul attended Wethersfield for his initial training he was then posted to policing duties in the Colchester district. He went on to serve in Halstead where he loved being a community officer. He was then selected to be a search officer. He went on his search course and in June 2001 he concluded his course and then spent the next 10 months searching for the body of Daniel Jones. During the search he was one of the officers who found a safe concealed in Campbells home that contained images.
Whilst searching for Danielle, Paul and the team were searching an area where a box was recovered. Whilst playing pass the parcel with the box it was discovered that they were playing with a viable IED. It was believed this had been left in place by a Combat 18 team.
As a mutual aid search officer Paul travelled throughout the UK. He worked on the April Jones murder. Commonwealth games and The Soham Murders “Holly and Jessica”.
Paul went on to DVI for Essex Police. During this time paul attended 5 air crashes! Paul discusses challenges with management during searches and difficult managers! In the closing months of his service Paul was seconded to Cornwall to be the POLSA for the G7 conference.
At the conclusion of his service, he had no idea how to write a CV and as he had no formal qualifications he was concerned about the future. He applied for job with Colchester City Council and whilst he wasn’t successful for that one, he was offered an alternate position.
Having taken a role at the council he was asked to lead a project to bring the Knife Angel to Colchester. He enlisted the support of Sir Bob Russell and Anne Oakes Odger.
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