Common law enforcement reports that used by police officers
PART 1: Deliverable Length: 200-300 words
You are asked to create a section of an officer training module in which you discuss the elements necessary for effective report writing, such as clarity and conciseness. The audience that the training module will educate is 15-year veterans in the force who are being required to attend the course because their report writing is below standard.
Please post your answers or opinions for the following questions. Make sure that when offering an opinion, you qualify it with academic or real-life examples to validate your opinion. Please provide at least 1 feedback post to 1 of your classmates.
What do you think will be the particular challenges in learning to write effective police reports, especially for this audience? Why?
How would you approach instructing effective report writing, specifically incident reports with this audience? Why would you take this approach?
PART 2: Deliverable Length: 4-6 pages
You are the chief of detectives of a medium-sized police department. You have been asked by the local police academy to provide a document about writing reports. The topic is about characteristics of a report and why the characteristics are important. Because of your experience in detective work and the importance that it is given to provide clear and concise reports, you want to make sure that the central point of facts and reporting the facts is driven in your document to the police academy.
Please answer the following questions to guide you in the composition of your 4-6 page paper. Please justify all answers with academic or real-life empirical, practical criminal justice examples.
What are the common law enforcement reports that are used by police officers?
Why is writing reports in law enforcement important? Please provide examples to accentuate your answer.
Is it important to provide the opinion of the reporting police officer in a report? Why?
What are some examples of writing reports incorrectly in the law enforcement field?
What are the correct steps from the scene of the crime to charging an individual with a crime?
