Notts police officers find second occupations are just the job!
TREVOR Oram's day job as a police CCTV evidence processor is unglamorous, but vital, work.
However, the 45-year-old feels as much at home in front of the camera as he does behind it.
Trevor, who is based at Nottingham's Bridewell custody suite, also works in his spare time as a model and an actor.
He has had small speaking parts in EastEnders, Coronation Street, as well as a role he is more used to – a police officer in A Touch of Frost.
One of his most recent parts has been in BBC daytime soap Doctors.
His modelling has seen him take part in fashion shows and wedding fairs up and down the country and on promotional literature for gas and electric, washing machine and pension companies.
"I've been into acting and modelling since I left Clarendon College around 20 years ago," said Trevor.
"I signed up with four agencies based all over the country and they have given me different work.
"I appeared once in Coronation Street as a customer in a flower shop where Tracey Barlow was working. I was a police officer in a Touch of Frost."
Before his full-time support role in Notts Police, Trevor was a police officer for two years.
"I didn't think it was me really. With this job I've worked on all sorts of cases, including murders.
"You have to be wary that an agency can call you at the drop of a hat, but this job comes first. I tend to do my other work on rest days or when I'm on annual leave.
"I'm married with three children and when the kids see me on TV they say 'There's daddy again'.
"I meet a lot of people with my acting and modelling work and I get to travel. I also guess I'm a bit vain."
Trevor is one of 52 Notts police officers and support staff who registered second jobs and business interests with the force in 2009-10.
The number was 17 per cent up on the 43 registered in 2008-9.
Other second jobs include working as a driving instructor, plumber, plasterer and yoga teacher. A further 19 officers or police staff received a second income from renting one or more properties in 2009-10.
Jaki Lowe, director of human resources, said: "We adopt a rigorous process for the consideration of business interests to ensure that there is no conflict between that and the responsibility of our officers and staff.
"Our personnel department is currently reviewing the force's business interest policy."
Other jobs on the list include...
A TOTAL of 52 officers at Notts Police have second jobs, which include working as plasterers and yoga teachers.
Among second occupations registered are:
19 renting out one or more properties
Two parent-governors
A model
An actor
A scuba driving instructor
A gas and electricity salesman
A self-employed plasterer
One who helps in an animal grooming parlour
A foster carer for disabled children
A school governor
A psychotherapist and trainer
An aloe vera salesperson
A plumber
A part-time beauty therapist
A yoga teacher
A support worker with disabled children
Driving instructor.
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by mad steve, has lost the plot completely and utterley
Monday, August 02 2010, 11:06PM
“steve...... it sounds like you have been consuming your moonshine for a few too many full moons.”
by Tom, (not) on the Bandwagon!
Monday, August 02 2010, 8:06AM
“The police officers should work every hour of every day because there is still work to do. Just like teachers, politicians, doctors, street cleaners, firemen.... oh, wait, hang on, I'm talking nonsence aren't I?!
We don't pay them 24/7 so why should we expect them to work that?
Look at their second jobs you dopes... renting houses, caring for the disabled, dog trimming, etc. For goodness sake, they're pretty much just hobbies!
Not sure what a dRiving instructor does though NEP - is that for submarines?
:-)”
by Rob, Notts
Sunday, August 01 2010, 6:43PM
“Yo're a lovely lad steve, one of society's best.......”
by Steve, Notts
Sunday, August 01 2010, 2:35AM
“Any surprise that a failed police officer is still wearing a uniform and still in the job???
Lets just say in the right place at the right time I could be a world of help to these oiks when they are in a world of hurt. I always try and find a way to be of no assistence, just like they do, and of course, no interaction with the police means they cannont give you a S5 warning, or nick you to make their end of month stats look good for arrest of none descript offences. I would rather walk past one of these people on fire than put it out and end up on the radar "you put the fire out, did you start it, will we find matches in your kitchen next to the stove if we search it and traumatise your pets it the process?"
Oh,and before you go and crime that up officer, I have to do a dynamic risk assessment, and if a copper who is armed with a baton and gas is down, thenm it ain't safe for me to approach the scene, so i'll just go about my business. i would have called it in, but my phone battery was down and the nearest phone box is vandalised because its in an area you don't patrol. oh dear, what choices eh?
Let me lock my dogs in a car and think about it.”
by Ex PCSO, Not Saying
Sunday, August 01 2010, 12:07AM
“If you cops did a better job in the first place then no one would be moaning about what you do in your spare time.
The fact is you offer a shoddy service and then prance about like pratts thinking the world owes you a favour.”
by Frequent Flyer, Notts
Saturday, July 31 2010, 11:30PM
“After working 3 long weekend shifts and arresting the low life of society, my son, a well paid PC, would have a day off on Mondays. Then on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, he would wear a different uniform and become the co-pilot on a Boeing 737 taking tourists to Costa del 'Crime' or Canaries Islands or Corfu or Sharam el Sheik or elsewhere in the Med. Then back for more weekend working with the dross...But eventually he had a brainwave and handed in his warrant card and police uniform for full time wearing of airline uniform and jetting off to the sunshine even more frequently..”
by jeffery, stapleford
Saturday, July 31 2010, 9:28PM
“yeah thanks for that gene. or should i say CONSTABLE.??”
by Gene, Looking For Life On Mars
Saturday, July 31 2010, 5:03PM
“I presume that all the posters here all have jobs and go home at the end of it, and even have days off?? In your days off and holidays I also presume that you do things, carry out your interests? That may be another job, volunteer work perhaps?
Get a life!! There is nothing wrong with people doing things in their PRIVATE, OWN time. Or do you expect cops to live in a police station, and be robots? As long as what ever is done in someones private lifes is legal and has no conflict, there is no problem. Unless of course you just like moaning (because you do b***er all in your private life), or just like to hate and be critical of the rozzers.
Get a grip.”
by Burning Ember, Arnold
Saturday, July 31 2010, 2:40PM
“There are many occupations in the public sector which forbid secondary occupations through a clause in the postholders contract of employment. l understood the Police Service was one of them?”
by You What?, Notts
Saturday, July 31 2010, 2:16PM
“Errrrrrr well all my sympathy for the police has just gone out the window.
What happened to the bogged down with paper work, thats why we can't fight crime excuses?
So when thugs are trashing up your street and you ring plod, when they say they won't be round for an hour, we all know why now!
They are too busy modelling and appearing as extras on telly while the innocent in society get their lives ruined by the scum.”