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1. What are the uses for field notes?

Judicial and administrative.1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Unless required, officers' opinions should not be included in the police report. Anything other than facts must be labeled as such to avoid any possible confusion.

2. Your written communication may serve as a source document for what proceedings?

When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Unless required, officers' opinions should not be included in the police report. Anything other than facts must be labeled as such to avoid any possible confusion.Judicial and administrative.1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.

3. Examples of Adverbs. (According to the student guide)

4. Identify the importance of separating fact from opinion in police reports.

5. What are the significant uses for the police report?

Permanent record of facts | Coordination of follow-up | Basis for prosecution and defense | Performance evaluations of officer | Statistical data | Reference material1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Judicial and administrative.

6. What is a Verb?

1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Judicial and administrative.Express an act, occurrence, or mode of being. | | (The suspect ran from the officer.") | ("The witness panicked once on the stand.")"

7. Define Categorical order.

When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Arrangement of information by category (witnesses, suspects, crime elements)1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.Judicial and administrative.

8. What is an Adverb?

When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"A word or combination of words typically serving as a modifier of a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a preposition, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence, and expressing some relation of manner or quality, place, time, degree, number, cause, opposition, affirmation, or denial.1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.Judicial and administrative.

9. What is a Modifier?

1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.A word or set of words that qualifies or limits another word or set of words.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Judicial and administrative.

10. Passive or Active? The bystander was hit by a stray bullet.

Judicial and administrative.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.Passive

11. What is a Noun?

Judicial and administrative.1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"A word that is the name of something (as a person, animal, place, object, quality, concept or action. | (The officer received an assignment.")"

12. What are the common types of police reports?

1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Arrest reports | Incident Reports | Offense Reports | Crash reports | Supplemental reportsJudicial and administrative.

13. Right or Wrong (Double Negatives) I can hardly see the road in this fog.

14. What are 'Field Notes'?

When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Brief notations concerning specific events and circumstances that are recorded while fresh in the officer's mind and used to prepare a report.1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.Judicial and administrative.

15. What is a misplaced modifier?

16. Identify the statutory authority relating to confidentiality of sex offense victims.

Judicial and administrative.A victim may choose a pseudonym to designate his or her identity in all public files and records concerning the offense. (See CCP, Ch. 57). Agency policy will dictate how this is documented.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.

17. What is a Preposition?

1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.A word that combines with a noun, pronoun, or noun equivalent (as a phrase or clause) to form a phrase that usually acts as an adverb, adjective, or noun. | | (She expected resistance on his part.") ("He sat down beside her.")"When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Judicial and administrative.

18. Right or wrong? (Placement of Modifiers) We saw many swimming pools flying over California.

19. (Other property) - description will differ by the type of property, but should include:

20. What is a Run-on Sentence?

Two or more sentences written as one results in a run-on sentence. | | Closely related sentences are often mistakenly combined into one. | | (The officer chased the suspect, and he had a gun.)When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Judicial and administrative.1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.

21. Right or wrong? (Placement of Modifiers) 'While flying over California, we saw many swimming pools'

RightJudicial and administrative.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.

22. What senses are used in observation?

Sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"Judicial and administrative.1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.

23. What is a Sentence Fragment?

When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.A group of words that is only a piece, or 'fragment', of a complete sentence. | | (The mirror in the hall closet.)Judicial and administrative.

24. What are components of a sentence?

25. When the verb is in the active voice, the subject does what?

Performs the action.When? (Please reply at once") | | How long? ("This investigation is taking forever") | | Where? (" The victim died there") | | In what direction? ("Pull the trigger backward") | | How? ("The detectives moved expeditiously on the project") | | To what degree? ("The book was very popular")"1. Provides basis for report | 2. Reduces need to re-contact parties involved | 3. provides greater accuracy relative to time, statements, and events than memory alone.Judicial and administrative.

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