Section 3.1

Question 1

Police officer reports are what?

Answer 1

Permanent record

Question 2

The report brings everything together.

Answer 2

TRUE

Question 3

As an officer you are involved in a lot of cases it might be years later when you need to testify to remind yourself of the particular case you will need to refer back to what?

Answer 3

Report

Question 4

If you do not write it down, it did not happen. If you do remember it, it is going to be ___________.

Answer 4

Attacked by the defense council

Question 5

Prosecutor step one is what?

Answer 5

What are we going to do here.

Question 6

Prosecutor step one questions:
Are we going to change this guy or not?
If we decide to charge him, what are we charging him with?
Look at the _______ because it is a summary of all the evidence that we have,

Answer 6

Report

Question 7

The _________ uses the report to decide if they are going to prosecute and what they are going to charge a person.

Answer 7

Prosecutor

Question 8

The report officially gets entered into evidence and is a summary about what happened. The report is the best overall and they use it a lot. Who is they?

Answer 8

Judge and Jury

Question 9

Who uses your report to see if you are doing your job and for promotional decisions?

Answer 9

Department/ Supervisors

Question 10

Every time you have a fender bender the police take a report and who uses it to determine who is at fault?

Answer 10

Insurance Company

Question 11

Insurance companies can use the report to determine whether to pay out or not. They look at your case very close. True or False

Answer 11

true

Question 12

Common mistake in reports is using _______ that people do not understand .

Answer 12

Jargon/ slang

Question 13

The victim punched the offender and then he grabbed the gun. This is an example of what?

Answer 13

Unclear sentence

Who grabbed the gun?

Question 14

You can include conclusions and assumptions but you need to ___________.

Answer 14

mark them

Question 15

Example, I saw an offender stumble many times. I stopped the offender at the corner. I asked him his name and where he was coming from and he said Moe’s in slurred speech. The assumption is what?

Answer 15

Moe was intoxicated

Question 16

You need to be clear if you make an assumption and it needs to be identified.
Example, I assume the man was intoxicated and I tried a breathalyzer and he refused.

Answer 16

Yes

Question 17

Is there a difference in your opinion and other people stating their opinion?

Answer 17

Yes

Question 18

Are you allowed to put someone’s opinion down as a witness?

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

If the witness calls the defendant stupid can you put it down as an opinion?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

You can out down other people’s opinions but not your own. True or False

Answer 20

True

Question 21

A gun was found at the scene. 
What scene and where at? 
What type of gun? 
Who found the gun? 
This implies what?

Answer 21

Incomplete information

Question 22

Lots of simple mistakes like 
There, their, they're 
Commas 
should've, could've, would've 
These are examples of what?

Answer 22

Grammatical errors

Question 23

They will not respect you if you do not know how to spell simple things. True or False

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Step one in organizing a report is what?

Answer 24

Outline

Question 25

What makes organization and writing so much easier?

Answer 25

Outline

Question 26

Events in your report need to be in what order?

Answer 26

Chronological order

Question 27

First, I arrive at the scene at this time and date in my patrol car and the weather was like this. The first thing I observed was this and this. I talked to the witnesses first and then I tased to this person. This is an example of what on a report?

Answer 27

chronological order

Question 28

Should you write in first person on a report?

Answer 28

Yes

Question 29

Write a police report like you are telling a narrative and do not use fancy words to try and entertain the reader. True or False

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Use as many details as possible if it is relevant to the case. This is what?

Answer 30

Narrative order, with details

Question 31

If someone is a witness to a car crash the color of their shirt is not relevant to the case. True or False

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Do not say the witness was tall. If the witness says this ask for a more detail for the witness to say the person was 6'4. True or False

Answer 32

True

Question 33

What happened.

Answer 33

content

Question 34

How it was given.

Answer 34

Form

Question 35

Grammatical English, chronological order, one front, separate sections with a bold heading. These are examples of what?

Answer 35

Form

Question 36

Do not say the person could not walk without stumbling. Instead say, the person did not walk without stumbling This is an example of what?

Answer 36

Conlusionary language

Question 37

Is is possible to know what somebody could or could not do?

Answer 37

no

Question 38

All you can observe is what the person _____________.

Answer 38

did or did not do

Question 39

Never use could not. Always use did not. True or False.

Answer 39

True