NC BLET Field Note-Taking and Report Writing
1. Field notes are shorthand written record made my the law enforcement
officer from the time they arrive on the scene until the
assignment is completed
2. Purposes of field
notes
3. you need to think
of your notes as
pieces to a ?
4. field note...
NC BLET Field Note-Taking and Report Writing
1. Field notes are shorthand written record made my the law enforcement
officer from the time they arrive on the scene until the
assignment is completed
2. Purposes of field for report writing
notes references
evidence
3. you need to think puzzle
of your notes as
pieces to a ?
4. field notes help helps recall events fully
with report writing
how?
5. field notes serve further investigation
as a handy refer-
ence for?
6. notes are perma- Evidence
nent record and
may be used as ?
7. who do officers the District Attorneys office
turn their field
notes over to if a
criminal prosecu-
tion is occuring?
8. if it is not written it didnt happen
down what?
9. some uses of offi- basis for final report
cer field notes in- record specific events
clude: refresh memories
used as evidence
reveal or identify leads
chronology of investigation
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ensure admissibility in court
reveal inconsistency
10. is a field note- yes
book an essential
part of a law en-
forcement officers
equiptment?
11. types of note- hip pocket ones 4 1/2" by 6"
books loose leaf notebook
boundbook
12. how should you in chronological order
file your field note-
book once you're
done with it?
13. you need to make name
sure you have rank
what written on departmental ID number
the inside of your
book?
14. list of things of- identification of investigating officer
ficers should in- dates and times
clude in their field locations
notes... sketches
names/Id of anyone involved (witness, victim etc)
results of interviews
investigative leads
weather conditions
telephone numbers
addresses
descripitions
15. 2 types of writing pen
instruments pencil
16.16.
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