The Center for Business Education and Training

Programs for Municipalities

Extensive Course List | Training Grants | Satisfied Customers | Contact Us

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

• Crime Scene Investigation
• Taking field notes, question checklist.
• Facts vs. Opinions

Programs for Municipalities

Contact the Center for Business Education and Training at 732.255.0510.