Reports & PC Statements: Writing for the Conviction

Improve your note-taking and report writing abilities. This is an active note-taking course with scenario-driven individual and group exercises and thought-driven quizzes. The ultimate goal of the course is to make the attendee better at documenting all of the items that make a report complete and ready for an investigator to “hit the ground running” or a prosecutor to bring charges with limited additional investigation.

- Identify four (4) tips that make a law enforcement report complete
- Identify top ten grammar use errors Diagnostic test of grammar, punctuation, and spelling use
- Identify the four (4) main types of reports
- Identify and correct issues with reports submitted for investigations
- Identify ten (10) “Things to do right” on each report
- Arrangement of reports for a final case report of a mock robbery/homicide
- Identify good characteristics of an interviewer and rules of question formulation
- Identify elements for statute offenses listed in the Handbook for - Law Enforcement Officers
- Demonstrate good note taking and question formulation while completing video-driven call-for-service scenarios
- Demonstrate condensing skills for probable cause statements from police reports

You may also like the following events from MSU Public Safety Training Center:

• Next month, 27th March, 08:00 am, Homicide Case Study | Patrol Officers’ Guide to K-9 Applications – 3 TS, 1 LS in Camdenton
• Next month, 30th March, 08:00 am, Active Shooter Level I Train-the-Trainer – Belton, MO – 12 TS, 10 SD, 18 Firearms SD in Belton
• This May, 12th May, 08:00 am, Field Training Officer (FTO) Development Program – 6 IP, 6 LS, 24 TS, & 4 SD in Camdenton

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