The police station

When I first went to the police, I had like I said been advised by a friend who is a policeman, but I wasn't really sure I was doing the right thing.
I soon realised they took whast happened to me very seriously.
First after I spoke briefly with the male officer, he brought a female officer who took my initial statement. She asked me to start from the beginning and tell her everything that happened. She wrote everything down, while they waited for someone from the specialist Sapphire team, who deal with sexual assault cases.
She then gave me an early evidence kit, so I had to give a urin sample and a mouth swap for DNA.

After a while, probably more than an hour, the 2 officers from the Sapphire team came. One man who is the investigating officer dealing with my case and a woman who is assigned as my point of contact during this whole procedure.
She then took my statement again, asked me to go through everything from the beginning again while she wrote it down. She also asked a lot of questions, more intimate than I would have thought.

After sitting there for about 3 hours or so she wanted to take me to a sexual assault referral centre to have a forensic examination, but by then it was after 10 at night, and I was so exhausted we decided to go there first thing in the morning instead.

So many people speak about bad experiences they have with the police when they report. But so far I have been lucky I guess. Haven't really seen the man who is in charge of the investigation, as he is doing other things, like arrests, interviews, witness statements, cctv and so on, but the woman who is my contact, was absolutely great during that first week, which was so extremely hard, and she's been in contact with any news since then.

Anyway, that was Sunday night, 2 days after the incident.
Soon I will tell you about Monday and the forensic examination with the DNA swabs.