Core
Following the detail
Reading a situation from the records up, noticing the one line that does not sit right, and staying with it until it explains itself. It is the part of the job that transfers to almost anything.
Derique Powery Welds
I am Derique Powery Welds, known professionally as Derique Powery. A born Caymanian, and since December 2022 a police constable with the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service.
The job suits me. It rewards patience, a steady manner and an interest in detail most people would call excessive. Much of it comes down to listening properly, writing it down accurately, and noticing when the account in front of me and the record that has to support it are not quite the same thing.
Away from it, I build things. I design systems, teach myself whatever the next one needs, and keep going until it works. Nobody asked me to and nobody pays me for it, which is exactly why it is any good.
It started as irritation. I kept watching sound processes fall apart at the precise moment somebody needed to prove what happened, and software that was technically fine and still miserable to use. So I started building alternatives to find out whether I could do better. Turns out I could.
There is no brief, no client and no deadline except the one I set, which means I can throw away a version that almost works. I read, take the courses, build it, break it and start again. It is a hobby in roughly the way running a marathon is a hobby.
Scope is where I collect the results. The systems, the thinking behind them, and notes on what makes a process still hold up a year later. All of it personal, built on my own time, and kept separate from my policing role.
RolePolice Constable, RCIPS
Serving sinceDecember 2022
FromBorn Caymanian
Away from the jobDesigning systems
Training
- Investigative trainingProfessional
- Project Management FoundationsPMI-registered, 3.25 PDUs