For as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by police work and investigations and would watch any show having to do with my obsession. From Cops to America's Most Wanted to Forensic Files - the work involved in investigating and solving crimes has always interested me.

Thanks to my job here at the TLC, I sometimes am involved in conducting investigations - which gives me the unique opportunity to participate in something I have always wanted to do. Most recently was when a taxicab was involved in an accident at Park Avenue in Manhattan. To be able to throw my badge around my neck and cross a police line gives me more of a thrill than any aspect of my job. But of all the types of investigative work that goes into solving crimes, there is one type that I wish I could do. So much in fact, that if I had the opportunity to do so, I would go back to school and learn as much about it as I could - Forensics.

Forensic work is, to me, the most fascinating work anyone can do. The job of a forensic investigator is to solve an unsolvable crime, using clues that are sometimes invisible to the naked eye. Using microscopes, infrared lights and DNA samples, crimes that would have remained unsolved mysteries are closed and the perpetrators of those crimes are brought to justice - all thanks to Forensics.

I have seen crimes solved using such amazing clues as a carpet fiber, a single-cell organism that was in a mud sample on a pair of shoes, saliva on the back of a postage stamp - and even the age rings of a tree. That's why forensics is so amazing, because the clues and tools used to solve a crime are things that no one would possibly think of. Criminals are stupid, always leaving all too obvious clues behind that pin them to the crime they committed. There are times though when criminals try their hardest to cover their tracks and almost get away with murder - and that's when forensic detectives really earn their money. Using their equipment and knowledge, they find answers in places that the criminals would not even think of - and ultimately bring them to justice.

I have nothing but the highest respect for forensic detectives and would give anything to be one. While non-forensic detectives also do an excellent job - it is the forensic detectives that have to dig deeper, go further - and find proverbial needles in haystacks that make me hold them at a higher level of respect and admiration than their colleagues.

Think about how many unsolvable crimes would have been solved if we had forensic technology in the past. I am sure if we looked at a sample of say 100 crimes from 50 years ago - at least ten percent of those crimes would have different outcomes if investigated again using forensic science. And looking forward - I can only imagine the level of forensic technology that we will have ten years from now that will assist us in crime solving - only time will tell.

So bravo to all forensic scientists and investigators out there using skill and science to solve crimes - nice work if you can get it.