Reports & PC Statements: Writing for the Conviction

Improve your note-taking and report writing abilities. This is an active note-taking course with scenario-driven individual and group exercises and thought-driven quizzes. The ultimate goal of the course is to make the attendee better at documenting all of the items that make a report complete and ready for an investigator to “hit the ground running” or a prosecutor to bring charges with limited additional investigation.

• Identify four (4) tips that make a law enforcement report complete
• Identify top ten grammar use errors Diagnostic test of grammar, punctuation, and spelling use
• Identify the four (4) main types of reports
• Identify and correct issues with reports submitted for investigations
• Identify ten (10) “Things to do right” on each report
• Arrangement of reports for a final case report of a mock robbery/homicide
• Identify good characteristics of an interviewer and rules of question formulation
• Identify elements for statute offenses listed in the Handbook for Law Enforcement Officers
• Demonstrate good note taking and question formulation while completing video-driven call-for-service scenarios
• Demonstrate condensing skills for probable cause statements from police reports