Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Sample Police Report
The text below is an example of a police report. Notice the following points about(predicate) it * It is written in clear, simple-minded English. * Dates, times and a nonher(prenominal) details are recorded as just now as possible. (Find some examples of these. ) * The register (i. e. the level of language) is formal. For example, there are no short forms such as didnt and no colloquial spoken language such as nicked. Similarly, the formal word purchased is used instead of bought. What other examples can you find? * The report is impersonal.The writer focusses on the events and the evidence, not on his own thoughts or feelings. Case Number VT 05/04/01/3462 Incident Vehicle stealth Reporting Officer Constable Ranjit Singh Date of Report 05 April 2001 At about 1040 hours on 5th April 2001, I met with Ms. Vanessa outlay at 61 South Chorley Drive regarding a vehicle theft. Ms. Price utter she park her railway car by a parking meter outside Chorley blank Centre at about 0945 hour s and went into a nearby shop to elapse a faulty torch she had purchased the previous day.She said that when she returned to the leisure focalize at about 1000 hours, she discovered her car was missing. Ms. Price depict her car as a maroon, 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse with a black transmutable roof. The car registration number is GTL-682-P. She estimated the value of the car at 8,500 and said there were no distinguishing marks or items. Ms. Price told me she locked the car, but she does not have the keys. She now believes she may have left the keys in the call forth lock after removing the faulty torch from the boot. Ms.Price said she gave no unrivalled permission to take her car, and she is up to date with her loan repayments. I conducted a survey of the crime scene but found no items of evidence. I saw no broken glass in the area, and there were no items to retrieve or photograph. I obtained a sworn statement from Ms. Price and provided her with the case number and Information L eaflet 99/07 (What to do when your car is stolen). I entered the vehicle into the station database as a stolen vehicle. I excessively searched the area but was unable to find the vehicle.
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