This course gives the students training in investigative report writing including the structure and format of making reports and research studies. It covers fundamentals and styles of report writing; form and contents 9of police reports, including simple legal forms; manner of handling standards polite forms; technique sequences of blotter entries; preparation of arrest and crime reports; fundamentals of records management and the decimal system of reports and document filing; study of uniform crime reports and care and custody of credential files; criminal statistics and wanted forms; follow-up control system and the use of electronic processing.
