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Your assignment for this week is to use the information you learned to complete the exercises listed on the bottom of page 142 through page 144 of your course textbook.

There are three different interviews so lets say that you are a police sergeant in a large department and you are required to write me as chief a report detailing the facts and subsequent action taken by you. In your report be detailed and explain what you did and why.

As a bit of realistic practice we will pretend these are actual police reports. In every police department I know, they have a certain format that is followed to keep everything uniform.

For example: Reports always start with either Sir or Ma'am or Chief, Captain, Lieutenant or some other description of rank followed by the addressee's name. Reports end with the words Respectfully Submitted or some other salutation followed by your name, rank and possibly ID or employee number.

They should be factual in nature and written in the first person. Generally speaking police reports will not include your opinion on matters unless specifically requested.

it is important to remember that in most states, 99% of all written police reports will become public records eventually and therefore subject to a Freedom of Information Act or other type of public records request.

In other words when working in your future careers in law enforcement, write your reports as if the entire world might be reading them on the front page of the newspaper.