Chapter 6 Concepts

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    Chapter 6 deals with writing police arrest reports. The most important lesson out of this chapter was to be as clear and concise as possible and make sure to include the information that gives the officer probable cause in the report. There are three ways to include probable cause: by using the five senses, by using the officer's training and experience and by using information gained during the coarse of daily activities. Without probable cause, an officer cannot make an arrest. Therefore, it is important to include probable cause within the police report. The rest of the chapter gave examples of police reports such as fill-inn-the-blanks forms and narrative reports. the fill-in-the-blanks form is self-explanatory, there boxes for they have a prescribed question to it and then the officer just fills in the blank. ;The narrative report requires more work on the officer. In the narrative report, the officer must manually write out what happened in chronological order and with as much detail as humanly possible.