S chedule Information
- Virtual Training via Blackboard
- February 13 - March 14, 2024
- May 21 - June 20, 2024
- Tuesdays and Thursdays
- 6 -7pm
- About one week prior to class, you will be sent an email with directions on how to login and access this course in Blackboard
P ayment Options
- You may register and pay via this website by clicking on "Select a Time" (red button above).
- 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
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.
