What is Writing the Official Investigative Report and Steps in Report Writing?

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Investigators should remember that the official police report is the backbone of the criminal prosecution process. It is a permanent record of the complaint and of the facts and events leading up to the arrest of the suspect.
Steps in Report Writing
1. Dates, times, and locations of incident.
2. Description of Victim
3. Wounds of the Victim
4. Overall description of the crime scene
5. Notes on photographs of the scene
6. Type and location of each piece of evidence
7. Absence of items

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