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    A. Police Report Definition

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    A police report is a chronological account of an incident that provides important information for various uses. Police reports fall under different classifications depending on their formality, purpose, and the categories they fall into. They can be informal memorandums or formal reports with various sections. Reports are used for planning, prosecution, research, and improving report writing. They also fall into categories like operational reports for daily incidents and arrests, internal reports for management, technical reports on specialized subjects, and summaries of information for solving crimes and problems.

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    A police report is a chronological account of an incident that provides important information for various uses. Police reports fall under different classifications depending on their formality, purpose, and the categories they fall into. They can be informal memorandums or formal reports with various sections. Reports are used for planning, prosecution, research, and improving report writing. They also fall into categories like operational reports for daily incidents and arrests, internal reports for management, technical reports on specialized subjects, and summaries of information for solving crimes and problems.

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    A police report is a chronological account of an incident that provides important information for various uses. Police reports fall under different classifications depending on their formality, purpose, and the categories they fall into. They can be informal memorandums or formal reports with various sections. Reports are used for planning, prosecution, research, and improving report writing. They also fall into categories like operational reports for daily incidents and arrests, internal reports for management, technical reports on specialized subjects, and summaries of information for solving crimes and problems.

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    A police report is a chronological account of an incident that provides important information for various uses. Police reports fall under different classifications depending on their formality, purpose, and the categories they fall into. They can be informal memorandums or formal reports with various sections. Reports are used for planning, prosecution, research, and improving report writing. They also fall into categories like operational reports for daily incidents and arrests, internal reports for management, technical reports on specialized subjects, and summaries of information for solving crimes and problems.

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    Police Report Definition


    A Police Report is a chronological or step-by-step account of an incident
    that transpired in a given time.
    B. Important Uses
    1. Serve as records for police administrators in planning, directing and
    organizing the unit’s duties.
    2. Can be used as legal documents in the prosecution of criminals.
    3. Can be used by other agencies.
    4. Can be useful to local media
    5. Can be a basis for research purposes
    6. Reports improve the personality of the writer
    B. Classification of Police Reports
    1. INFORMAL REPORTS. Most police reports may be placed under this
    category. It is usually a letter or memorandum, or any one of the many
    prescribed in day-to-day police operations.
    2. FORMAL REPORTS. It suggests the full-dress treatment, including the cover
    title, title page, letter of transmittal, summary sheet, text, appendices, and
    perhaps an index and bibliography
    perhaps an index and bibliography.
    C. According to Purpose
    1. PERFORMANCE REPORT. It contains information to the status of an activity
    or operation.
    2. FACT-FINDING REPORT. It involves the gathering and presentation of new
    data in logical order, without attempt to draw conclusions.
    3. TECHNICAL REPORT. It presents data on a specialized subject.
    4. PROBLEM- DETERMINING REPORT. It attempts to find out the causes of the
    problem or to find out whether or not a problem really exists.
    5. PROBLEM-SOLUTION REPORT. It analyzes the thought process that lies
    behind the solution of a particular problem.
    D. Categories of Police Reports
    1. OPERATIONAL REPORTS. It includes those relating to reporting police
    incidents, investigations, arrests, identification of persons, and miscellaneous
    reports necessary to the conduct of routine operations.
    2. INTERNAL REPORTS. Those relating to the reporting of necessary to the
    management of the police organization.
    3. TECHNICAL REPORTS. Present data on any specialized subject, but usually
    related to completed staff work, and add to the specific knowledge necessary
    to proper police management.
    4. SUMMARY-OF-INFORMATION. Furnish intelligence information necessary
    to the solution of crimes, accidents, and police administrative problems.

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