Report Writing and Approval for Law Enforcemnt Supervisors-The Gap Free Narrative

COURSE GOALS:

This class sets up police supervisors for success in police report review and subsequent approval. For far too long, the assumption has been that once someone is promoted, they automatically know what a "good" report looks like.  Nothing could be farther from the truth, and this is an area that requires just as much, if not more, training as other areas of police work. This 8-hour course is designed to provide law enforcement supervisors with a system of review for report narratives with defense-resiliency in mind.  This will be achieved by using the Gap-Free Narrative™ approach created by Offset Consulting LLC.

This class trains supervisors with report approval authority on how to properly review reports with a Gap-Free mindset.  This system will teach report approvers how to check for inconsistencies in articulation and will also provide them with a way to begin standardizing the way their agency approaches the approval of a police narrative.

Under this lesson plan and the principles of the Gap-Free Narrative™ system, students will learn how to use the system’s checklist and narrative breakdowns. This new approach will teach how to analyze a narrative to ensure it has the parts necessary in it, and then employ a checklist to ensure all aspects of the reported-on incident are being documented.

STUDENTS MUST BRING A LAPTOP and 10 copies of a single report they've approved in the past for a violent crime.

This course has been approved by ILETSB to meets the following mandates:

Civil Rights (2 Hours)

Constitutional and Proper use of Authority (2 Hours)

Human rights (.5 Hours)

Procedural Justice (1 Hours)