Nick joined the Police in 2005, initially as a member of police staff, where in 2010, he became a police officer gaining substansial investigative experience in a variety of investigation roles.

Early on in his service with the Police, he spent a short period of time shadowing forensic collision investigators. That experience was confirmation for him that being a forensic collision investigator was what he wanted to spend his life doing. It required him to have a mix of investigative skills, a working knowledge of various scientific concepts and an understanding of how vehicles and their systems operated, all of which Nick had gained by the time he joined the department.

In 2017, he was lucky enough to be selected to join West Yorkshire Police's collision investigation unit, where he spent the next six years as an operational forensic collision investigator, taking up the position of acting forensic collision investigation supervisor and senior forensic collision investigator in his final year with the Police.

In his time as a collision investigator, he completed the Police Scotland Road Policing Forensic Investigator award, and more recently, he has been awarded a Foundation Degree in Road Collision Investigation by De Montfort University.