Meldin visited us from Martinique in the summer of 2009 as an intern for five weeks. A French National studying Business at home, this was her first visit to the UK where she made new friends and worked with many of our young detectives as well as their older contemporaries. Coming from an island with a population of 40,000, the UK was to some extents a culture shock, but she soon found her place and proved her worth; some of our work involves European research and her natural French combined with fluent English gave her a head start. Thrown into the deep in some investigations, she swam proficiently, investigating, among other cases, an employee on long term sickness and a manufacturers missing stock