Scientific Support Services
Rochelle Deleveaux
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<p><u>The Beginning</u><p>Chief Superintendent Rochelle Lynette Deleveaux, is a graduate of Government High School. She always nurtured aspirations of having a career in the scientific field and enrolled at Acadia University in Nova Scotia Canada in pursuit of an undergraduate degree.
<p>After completing a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry at Acadia University in 1993. She returned home to make a decision pertaining to her future unsure of whether to continue her studies or embark on a career. While pondering she heard about the Police Force’s Forensic Science Laboratory and completed a tour of the facility. She made the decision to pursue Forensic Science as a career. Chief Superintendent therefore enlisted in the Royal Bahamas Police Force on July 1, 1994.
<p>In December 1994, after almost six months of rigorous training, Chief Superintendent Deleveaux graduated from the Police Training College receiving the ‘Baton of Honour’ for ‘A’ Squad 1994. She was then posted to the Southern Police Station (now the Southern Division), Market and Quakoo Streets. While attached to Southern Police Station she was exposed to various station duties and was the Computer Terminal Operator for her ‘guard’. Her experiences at this Station were that firm foundation upon which her career in Forensic Science was built.
<p>Subsequently, in September 1995, she was transferred to the Forensic Science Laboratory (now Scientific Support Services) and began an intensive in-house training program. Upon successfully completing the training program in mid 1997 she became an analyst, specializing in Forensic Biology. It was at that time she began giving forensic testimony of her findings in our Supreme and Magistrates Courts.
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