Programs for Municipalities
Report Writing Skills
for Police Officers
This course will improve the report writing and
communication skills of police officers, detectives,
and corrections officers. The course includes
the fundamentals of writing and communication.
Students will gain a better understanding of how
to write a superior police report with clarity
and precision by studying format, coherence, and
voice. Appropriate language, grammar, punctuation,
and spelling will be addressed. Reporting incidents
and documenting the crime scene accurately and
thoroughly will be covered in this course. The
report will be customized to the department's
report format.
Workshop Highlights:
Fundamentals of Writing
- Parts of a Sentence, "I" vs. "Myself" and reference agreement.
- Word pairs that are often confused
- Matching tenses
- Active vs. Passive Voice
- Spelling and Editing
- Run on sentences and commas
- Organization of Paragraphs
- Transitions
Writing Effective Reports
- Categorizing ideas
- Sample report formats
- Simple Words and Jargon
Incident Documentation
- Crime Scene Investigation
- Taking field notes, question checklist.
- Facts vs. Opinions
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