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Reviewing and Approving Reports: Who Should Do It and How
SEMINAR OVERVIEW
To this day, many police agencies have an outdated and risky approach to reviewing and correcting reports. Doing it incorrectly leads to production of misinformation, different versions of reports, and risk of litigation. Misconceptions regarding the role records personnel and police supervisors play in the report review process are prevalent. Errors get overlooked, fingers are pointed, and officers feel frustrated.
Learn how to bring clarity, consistency, and buy-in to the importance of rejecting and correcting errors through a policy-driven quality control review process that ensures transparency, prevents risk in court testimony, and resolves the challenge of getting everyone on the same page. Learn how to review reports, correct errors, and document changes to reports the right way.
TRAINING GOALS
- Helping agencies understand the correct approach to quality control of police reports;
- Clarifying how reports should be reviewed, rejected, corrected, and by who;
- Clarifying what types of mistakes should be rejected, and who should correct them;
- Developing agency policy and procedure for quality control.
Specific Learning Objectives
- Understanding what constitutes a mistake, and whether it can be corrected by records personnel, a supervisor, or only by the officer;
- How to systematically review a report, identify errors, and develop consistent and transparent correction procedures;
- How to track errors and build accountability for quality reporting with officers, supervisors, and records personnel.
- Report scenarios, case studies, and exercises
- Sample reports
Available for Additional Purchase
- Report writing guide: how to write quality police reports to help ensure prosecution, and conviction.
- NIBRS-based report writing manual (provided as a Word doc for agency-specific customization)
Upon registering, you’ll receive a link to join the webinar with instructions. Check your junk mail folder in case you don’t see it.
Included materials
Materials will be provided for download during the webinar including:
- Course slides
- Sample reports
- Course certificate
Optional Materials For Purchase and Download When You Register
Case management course on-demand for your agency $49
Receive an on-demand version of our Case Management course to provide case management training to anyone in your department. This is a self-paced course to learn how to correctly manage case status and disposition in reports, and the procedures needed to correctly update cases. Learn how status and disposition fields in RMS function, when supplements must be written, and who should be authorized to change case status.
Customizable Departmental NIBRS Report Writing Manual $195
Get officers, records, and supervisors on the same page with what’s required for writing reports following NIBRS standards. The manual is designed to be customized to align with your existing policies and procedures. Preview here.
- NIBRS data elements and definitions
- Report writing standards
- Scenarios for officers
- Supervisor responsibilities
- Report review & correction policy
- Situations requiring a report
- By the end of shift policy
- How many reports do I write? (Time and Place Rule, Acting in Concert, Hotel Rule)
- How crimes are counted
- Clearing cases by exception
- Unfounding cases
- Error-tracking and performance metrics
Checks, credit cards, PO’s accepted.
DISCOUNTED PRICING
One person: $279
2nd person 25% off: $209.25
3rd person 35% off: $181.35
4th person (or more) 50% off: $139.50 each
Each person registered will receive a certificate.
Please note, the price for training is per-person. While it’s possible for multiple people to view the training online, the format of the training doesn’t change the value of the knowledge learned by each attendee. Just as if the seminar was in-person, we ask that you register each person who plans on participating and receiving the information that will be provided. Each will receive a certificate. Thank you.
COURSE CATALOG
Course catalog download 2024
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Upcoming Dates
- 11/19/2024: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST
- 01/28/2025: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST
- 03/11/2025: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST
ALL COURSES
RECORDS MANAGEMENT
Intro to Law Enforcement Records Mgmt.
Conducting a Records Inventory & Purge
Eliminating Risk & Liability in Records
CAD/RMS Procurement & Project Management
PUBLIC RECORDS and COMPLIANCE
Redacting Law Enforcement Records
Criminal Law for Records Personnel
Evidence Records: Retention & Disposition
PROPERTY/EVIDENCE
Property and Evidence Management
Supervising a Property/Evidence Unit
CRIME REPORTING & NIBRS
Report Writing 102: What the Academy Doesn't Teach
Reviewing and Approving Reports: Who Should Do It and How
Crime Stats & NIBRS for the Police Executive
Transitioning to NIBRS: What You Need To Know