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Crooks go Free because of Bad Police Report Writing

According to the City and County of San Francisco District Attorney's Office, report-writing deficiencies are still one of the factors contributing to the high number of cases turned down for prosecution by the DA's Office.

Two Factors Influence Bad Report Writing

During the 28-week SFPD Academy basic training course sanctioned by Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST), Police Officer recruits receive approximately 60 hours of training in report-writing, consisting of 28 two to four hour sessions. At the end of the course, recruits take a separate final exam for report-writing, in addition to the POST exam. Police Academy classes stress the importance of complete and thorough reports and provide standards and guidelines to assist recruits in writing reports. However, according to staff from the DA"s Office, Field Training Officers and other members of the Police Department tend to encourage recruits to be as concise as possible in writing reports, essentially advising them to forget the report-writing techniques learned at the Police Academy.

In addition, the Coro Foundation"s study cited other reasons for deficiencies in report-writing by the SFPD. For example, the report stated that approximately one-third of recruits wrote at below the eighth grade level when they entered the Police Academy.

Read the complete report:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/budanalyst_page.asp?id=5204

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Looking at career training for any profession can not be viewed from a single perspective.

The police perform a vital and ever-changing role and function in a very complex society. The historic function of walking a beat and catching street criminals is still performed along with employing aggressive softwares to thwart cyber crime. The police have inherited several roles which include parenting, the care of victims and the disadvantaged. The impact of local gang violence and international criminal mercenaries is present in almost every country.

Professional police officers have to be full time students.

The politicians acting as either leaders or followers change the laws and the police have to keep up to date. Criminals are constantly developing new techniques to steal and elude detection and evade capture. To be a professional police officer you have to have a tremendous volume of general knowledge and at least one or two specialties. To work in a professional police force you have to be both independent and a team player and able to work seamlessly with other agencies.

Police candidates should be able to constantly study and understand the importance of staying ahead of the curve. The full time studies should have started long before becoming police candidates, accelerated when training and increase again when given their badge.

Examples of Continuous Training for police:

COGNITIVE INTERVIEWING is a powerful interviewing technique used to extract significantly more accurate information from victims and witnesses. Used by investigators within the United States as well as numerous countries throughout the world, this highly effective research based technique of investigative interviewing has proven to enhance the memory of the individuals being interviewed and effectively increase accurate recall of information. Through guided memory retrieval techniques, the investigator will enhance their ability to develop rapport with people and extract more accurate and reliable information from victims and witnesses than traditional methods.

INVESTIGATIVE STATEMENT ANALYSIS is is the structured and systematic analysis of language, whether written (statements, transcripts, electronic mail, etc) or spoken. Through the analysis of the words people use, the investigator will gain insight into the individuals thought process and obtain a tremendous advantage prioritizing and conducting follow-up interviews, directing their investigations, and reaching accurate conclusions relating to the veracity of the information that people provide. This training is based upon the principle that the psychological stress associated with deception manifests subconsciously within our choice of words. Many times even the motive for the crime will be identified through careful analysis, which often goes undetected by investigators who have not received training in this powerful technique. If you conduct interviews and interrogations or obtain written statements without the knowledge of statement analysis, you are doing the equivalent of processing crime scenes without proper training in the recognition and collection of evidence. Much of the information will be overlooked or misinterpreted, and your investigation may suffer and you may never reach the TRUTH, which is our ultimate goal.

Our thanks to Wes Clark at www.truthsleuth.com

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