Report Writing
| Number: | 316 |
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| MemberFee: | No Fee for Members |
| Contact: | Denelle 309-268-8430 or Denelle.HETRICK@heartland. |
| Objectives: | This course covers and practices with handouts and exercises: 1. The impact of a report on an investigation, prosecution, a victim, the department's reputation, and on officer liability. 2. The interpersonal and professional communication skills needed to identify and teach report editing and feedback. 3. Editing and proofing methods checklist. 4. Elements of the crime: do the charges match the narrative? 5. Interviewing and investigative skills and methods 6. Narrative: tools for improving note-taking to final organizational copy 7. Concise language versus jargon, wordiness, redundancy, and summary phrases 8. Verbs and pronouns: maintaining the chain of custody of evidence, quotes, and statements 9. Grammar: sentence structure, punctuation, spelling Instructor: Jan Mirikitani teaches leadership principles for organizational communication competencies with realistic applications from Stephen Covey, John C. Maxwell, and Price Pritchett. She has trained for numerous federal agencies, county and municipal governments, corporations, small businesses, and civic groups. Jan has been a contractor trainer and consultant for the Justice Department since 2000. Jan began training law enforcement programs in 1989, and has trained command staff, supervisors, field trainers, line officers, recruits, and telecommunicators. She has been training at the St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy for eighteen years, at the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department for 7 years, and for the Southwestern Illinois Law Enforcement Commission since 2000. Jan wrote and teaches four trainer-the-trainer schools. She has been a conference speaker for U.S. Probation, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Department of the Interior, the American Society of Industrial Security, IL Sheriffs Conference, D.A.R.E. America, LETSAC, MO Juvenile Case Workers, Division of Family Services, the University of MO and University of Wisconsin Extension Centers, to name a few. |
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