Police Officer Writing

Working in the Criminal Justice field requires a proficiency in your ability to write. As a police officer/case worker filling out reports, conducting interviews and taking notes, and filling out assessment, search warrants and arrest warrants may not seem like a task that requires great communication skill but it does. In almost every profession where you are preforming a service calls for an initiation of some kind of permanent record, and this is especially true in Law Enforcement. Your writing could consist of a one line entry of an unverified situation to a lengthy investigation detailing horrific events. Being able to fully articulate in writing could mean all the difference between a criminal going to jail or being set free.
A police officers/case workers job is a lot of documenting what they saw, heard, did and or collected. Filling out these particular forms require ones writing to be clear and concise, whether your writing needs to be argumentative or persuasive. As a officer you are the first step for a district attorney to determine if a case can be bought to trail. Will you be able to testify and persuade the jury that you are knowledgeable about the events in questions, leaving no room for doubt. If your incident report is written poorly or your
(2016, Sept 1). Email Interview. you have two different types of writing that you need to know in any profession, especially in law enforcement, professional and bureaucratic writing. As an officer you tend to do more professional writing. This type of writing has more of a courteous tone and is used in a work place environment. Its context is used to “encourage action, persuade and inform”. where as bureaucratic style of writing is used by your Sergeants, Captains, and Chief of Police. With bureaucratic writing you must “declare your separateness from others, by removing all human feelings and emotions”. To make it up the career ladder you must become accustom to