INCIDENT REPORTS
What is a written document that gives information about an event?
Report
Chronologically
Ex: John RAN towards his residence.
Verb
What is defined as a paragraphs containing specific details, pertinent information, and elements of an incident?
Narrative
A report should be written in what tense?
Past
Once you submit a report, your supervisor will review and approve it and it becomes a _______ under Florida Law.
Public Record
What type of organization is grouping information by category, such as witnesses, victims, suspects, weapons used, and crime elements?
Categorically
What acts as a substitute for a noun? Ex: SHE was arrested for Domestic Battery.
Pronoun
Prose
Write your reports in ______, rather than ______.
Active/Passive
Reports are generally categorized in three (3) categories
1. Incident Reports
2. Probable Cause Affidavits
3. Supplemental/Follow-Up Reports
What involves rules and guidelines that govern a language's usage?
Grammar
What describes a noun or pronoun? Ex: The ELDERLY male.
Adjective
A report must be _____, do not include personal opinions, judgements, hunches, or guesses.
A report must contain what three (3) things?
- Introduction
- Body
- Conclusion
What are five (5) potential readers of your police report?
- Attorneys
- Members of the Public
- Supervisors/Other Officers
- Judges
- Media Reporters
What is a group of words that contains a subject, verb, and an object that expresses a complete thought?
Sentence
What part of speech, links words and phrases and provides temporal, spatial, and logical relationships? Ex: The subject jumped OUT of the car, went OVER the wall, and ran INTO the store.
Preposition
You should avoid using this in reports:
What includes vocabulary used in a profession that has meaning ONLY to the people who work in that particular field or profession?
Jargon
A report should be written in this point of view:
"I saw, I spoke, I arrived" versus "The officer saw, the officer spoke"
First person vs Third Person
What are five (5) types of incidents which may be documented in a police report?
- All Crimes
- Use of Force
- Deaths/Suicides
- Found Property
- Runaway Juveniles/Missing Adults
What is a group of words that lacks a subject, verb, or object?
Sentence Fragment
What part of speech connects words with other words, clauses, and ideas? Ex: Deputy Smith AND I ran after the female subject WHILE K9 ran after the male subject.
Conjunction
You should avoid this in your reports:
What consists of informal, nonstandard words often used by regional or specific groups?
Slang
When writing your report, you should write it in this language:
_____ refers to the form of language used when speaking and writing wherever English is spoken and understood.
Standard English