0030 - Criminal Justice Report Writing

Course Description

About one week prior to class, you will be sent an email with directions on how to login and access this course in Blackboard

Payment Options

• You may register and pay via this website.
• You may request to be invoiced by sending an email along with the names of your participants, their email addresses, and your organization's W-9 to communityed@coastalpines.edu.

POST Approved = 10 Hours

• Minimum Attendance = 90%

Description

Criminal Justice Report Writing provides participants with a review of the principles of effective criminal justice report writing. Participants will improve upon their current report writing skills by enhancing their content, structure, and grammar.

Mechanics of Report Writing

• Identify and demonstrate the following characteristics of an effective report: accuracy; conciseness; completeness; clarity; legibility; objectivity; grammatically correct; and correct spelling.

Mechanics of Communication

• Identify the dynamic roles of verbal, non-verbal and written communication.
• Identify and demonstrate the following characteristics of a complete report: who; what; when; where; why; and how.
• Recognize the difference between facts, inferences and opinions.

Mechanics of Law Enforcement Reports

• Identify the steps of report writing.
• Explain the need for narratives to be clear, correct, complete and accurate.
• Demonstrate based on simulated incidents, the ability to organize information effectively.
• Organize information in reports.
• Describe the importance of organizing information logically.
• Identify the basic uses of field notes.
• Identify the mechanics of field note taking.
• Prepare effective field notes.
• Identify the information that must be included in field notes.
• Develop a system for taking notes to ensure recording all needed information.
• Interview in a simulated environment, subjects to elicit needed information and record that information in field notes.

Practical Experience in Report Writing

• Compose reports using information recorded from field notes.
• Demonstrate based on simulated incidents, the ability to write effective narratives which are clear, correct, complete, and accurate.
• Compose reports based on simulated incidents.