Investigation Project: Incident Report and Narrative Assignment

Investigation Project: Incident Report and Narrative Assignment Instructions

Overview

Criminal justice professionals utilize various forms within their organizations to report facts about an investigation. Those forms will vary from organization to organization. The general information gathered in these forms should be similar.

One other common form in criminal investigations is the Incident Report and Victim Sheet. For the Investigation Project: Incident Report and Narrative Assignment, you will be completing an Incident Report and Victim Sheet based upon the provided facts.

In addition to utilizing forms to report investigation facts, a criminal justice professional may be called upon to write a narrative summary of the incident. A narrative summary is an objective document that summarizes the investigation in paragraph format, rather than on a form. The narrative section is a blank portion of the report that the officer uses to clarify the cover sheet information. It provides a chronological history of the officer’s involvement.

Instructions

This assignment has two components: The Incident Report & Victim Sheet and the Narrative Summary. These items should be created separately and then submitted as two documents for this Module: Week.

Incident Report & Victim Sheet

Review the facts provided, including the witness interviews and the photos of the crime scene.

Based upon your review and analysis of these facts, fill in the sections of the Incident Sheet. Please note that the Incident Sheet and Victim Sheet are two pages that are contained in one document.

Fill in as many details about the crime as you can. If the provided facts do not include information to match a section of the sheet, write “Unknown” or “UNK”.

Important Notice: To complete and submit this assignment, you will need to install Adobe Reader if it is not already on your computer. The protected PDF files will need to open in a PDF Reader, instead of Microsoft Word. The Assignment Resource: Adobe Reader can be found in the Reading material for Module 5: Week 5.

Narrative Summary

Review the facts provided, including the witness interviews and the photos of the crime scene.

Prepare a 1–2-page Narrative Summary in current APA format.

Within the Narrative Summary, provide specific details about the incident in an objective manner using only the facts provided in the investigation file.

Your Narrative Summary must include the following sections, providing these headings for each section.

1. Source of Activity- This section of the report is used by the reporting officer to document his/ her reason for being at the location of the incident. (i.e.: On July 2, 2018 at approximately 0128 hours, I was dispatched to 429 “Z” street in reference to a theft investigation.)

2. Observations- This section is used to describe the reporting officer’s observations that led to the arrest.

3. Arrest- This section is used to describe the reporting officer’s actions at the time of arrest, if an arrest occurred. In this section, the officer once again covers the justification for the arrest. (Pursuant to warrant #2018-00239, the suspect was placed under arrest.)

4. Statements- This section is used to summarize any formal statements made by the arrestee, witnesses, or victims.

5. Booking- This section is used to record the location of booking along with the charges and transporting officer, if any.

6. Evidence- This section is used to recap previously mentioned seized property and indicate a disposition of the items.

7. Additional- This section is used to record any facts that are not included in one of the previously mentioned subtitles. (i.e.: towed suspect’s vehicle, passengers, etc.)

Use proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar.