Post by Sheriff M. Cartwright on Jun 20, 2015 11:30:00 GMT -5
Located below is the template (with descriptions) for Orange County Sheriff's Office incident reports. The rules regarding when one should file a report are well defined: if you make an arrest, write a ticket (citation), or respond to a domestic Dispute, a report will be required to be written and turned in to your supervisor for approval.
ORANGE COUNTY REPORT TEMPLATE:
CASE #: 2015-0000 (ask Communications for the case number of the call)
DATE: (MM/DD/YYYY)
TIME: (the time this report is being written)
REPORTING DEPUTY: (the first name initial and FULL LAST NAME of the individual writing the report. Put their callsign in parantheses. Ex: M. CARTWRIGHT (OCSO UNIT 1).)
SOURCE:
ON (THE DAY AND THE DATE), WHILE I WAS WORKING UNIFORMED PATROL IN MY [MARKED? UNMARKED?] ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE PATROL VEHICLE; I [RESPONDED TO? INITIATED?] A [DESCRIBE THE CALL HERE E.G. TRAFFIC STOP, VERBAL DISPUTE, ETC.]
VICTIM STATEMENT:
[IF THE VICTIM (IF THERE IS ONE) MADE A STATEMENT, LIST IT HERE. IF NOT, THEN SIMPLY WRITE "NONE."]
SUSPECT STATEMENT:
[IF THE SUSPECT MADE A STATEMENT, LIST IT HERE. IF NOT, THEN SIMPLY WRITE "NONE."
NARRATIVE:
[THIS IS WHERE YOU DESCRIBE THE EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE CALL FROM START TO FINISH IN AS MUCH DETAIL AS YOU CAN. WHAT WERE YOU DOING WHEN YOU GOT THE CALL OR SELF-INITIATED ONE? WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? WHAT DID YOU SEE? DID ANYONE RESPOND AS BACK-UP? BE DESCRIPTIVE.
AND BREAK IT UP INTO PARAGRAPHS OF FIVE TO SIX SENTENCES. NOBODY LIKES READING A WALL OF TEXT!]
INVESTIGATION:
WAS THERE ANY KIND OF INVESTIGATION? A SEARCH OF THE VEHICLE, AN ID CHECK, A SEARCH OF THE PERSON? IF SO, LIST IT HERE IN DETAIL. WHAT YOU DID, FOUND, AND SAW.
EVIDENCE:
WAS THERE ANY TYPE OF EVIDENCE COLLECTED ON SCENE OR FROM THE SUSPECT? LIST THEM HERE IN BULLET FORMAT. EXAMPLE:
- ONE (1) NINE MILLIMETER HANHANDGUN TAKEN FROM THE SUSPECT.
- TWO (2) CLIPS FOR THE NINE MILLIMETER, FOUND IN THE GLOVE BOX.
ORANGE COUNTY REPORT TEMPLATE:
CASE #: 2015-0000 (ask Communications for the case number of the call)
DATE: (MM/DD/YYYY)
TIME: (the time this report is being written)
REPORTING DEPUTY: (the first name initial and FULL LAST NAME of the individual writing the report. Put their callsign in parantheses. Ex: M. CARTWRIGHT (OCSO UNIT 1).)
SOURCE:
ON (THE DAY AND THE DATE), WHILE I WAS WORKING UNIFORMED PATROL IN MY [MARKED? UNMARKED?] ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE PATROL VEHICLE; I [RESPONDED TO? INITIATED?] A [DESCRIBE THE CALL HERE E.G. TRAFFIC STOP, VERBAL DISPUTE, ETC.]
VICTIM STATEMENT:
[IF THE VICTIM (IF THERE IS ONE) MADE A STATEMENT, LIST IT HERE. IF NOT, THEN SIMPLY WRITE "NONE."]
SUSPECT STATEMENT:
[IF THE SUSPECT MADE A STATEMENT, LIST IT HERE. IF NOT, THEN SIMPLY WRITE "NONE."
NARRATIVE:
[THIS IS WHERE YOU DESCRIBE THE EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE CALL FROM START TO FINISH IN AS MUCH DETAIL AS YOU CAN. WHAT WERE YOU DOING WHEN YOU GOT THE CALL OR SELF-INITIATED ONE? WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? WHAT DID YOU SEE? DID ANYONE RESPOND AS BACK-UP? BE DESCRIPTIVE.
AND BREAK IT UP INTO PARAGRAPHS OF FIVE TO SIX SENTENCES. NOBODY LIKES READING A WALL OF TEXT!]
INVESTIGATION:
WAS THERE ANY KIND OF INVESTIGATION? A SEARCH OF THE VEHICLE, AN ID CHECK, A SEARCH OF THE PERSON? IF SO, LIST IT HERE IN DETAIL. WHAT YOU DID, FOUND, AND SAW.
EVIDENCE:
WAS THERE ANY TYPE OF EVIDENCE COLLECTED ON SCENE OR FROM THE SUSPECT? LIST THEM HERE IN BULLET FORMAT. EXAMPLE:
- ONE (1) NINE MILLIMETER HANHANDGUN TAKEN FROM THE SUSPECT.
- TWO (2) CLIPS FOR THE NINE MILLIMETER, FOUND IN THE GLOVE BOX.