This manual is the undisputed authority on plain-talk report writing techniques. Interesting and easy-to-read, it provides hundreds of examples that show easier and better ways to write without any spelling or grammar lessons. It is valuable as a supplemental reader for investigations or police communications courses. Students will devour this book and gain an incredible understanding of the impact report writing has on the complex issues surrounding a case.
Rutledge combines the legal analysis of a prosecuting attorney with the practical experience of a former police officer. He offers dozens of tactical tips in ""plain talk."" Criminal Interrogation covers every aspect of Miranda. Rutledge makes sense of Supreme Court decision issues, while convincingly dispelling many ""Miranda myths"" that have haunted officers for years. This text is an excellent supplemental reader to expand on the topic of interrogation. Your students will come away with a superior understanding of this difficult art.
Instruction on officer safety covers surviving occupational stress, cardiovascular risks, traffic risks, suicide risks, field threats, and wounds and injury. Police job-related risks are in the general categories of disease, accident, suicide, and homicide. Occupational stress can be a contributing factor to death or injury in all these areas, as it undermines physical and mental health as well as alertness and concentration in the performance of field duties. Stress may derive from the nature of the work, community sources, internal departmental operations, the justice system, family relationships, and from the officer's personality. Countering cardiovascular risk involves understanding the risk, dealing with and preventing high blood pressure, watching diet, eliminating smoking, and giving attention to exercise and body composition. Surviving traffic risks involves focusing on routine patrol driving, emergency and pursuit driving, vehicle safety, safety devices, and pedestrian hazards. Countering the risk involves being attentive to the warning signs and undertaking preventive steps. Surviving field threats means being attentive to safety procedures for general patrol duties and those appropriate for specific duties and situations, such as felony carstops, robbery calls, burglary calls and building searches, dealing with deranged persons, ambushes, disturbance calls, and field interviews. Guidelines for surviving wounds and injury are to not panic, stop the bleeding, protect your air, prevent shock, and follow other self-aid principles. Graphic and photographic illustrations are provided.
Keeping up with all of the principles governing police searches and seizures, interrogation of suspects and eyewitness identification procedures has been a daunting challenge. [This book] brings together in a single volume all of the important Supreme Court rulings affecting these highly-refined areas of law." -- Cover
This easy-to-read, illustrated text addresses all topics (plus learning goals and objectives) currently required by POST for the PC 832 Training course. It is the consistent 832 PC training book since 1986 and is updated yearly. It ensures uniform exposure to POST required material and gives students a reference handbook. This text not only reduces the need for supplemental handouts, but it also provides study assignments with a comprehensive glossary and complete index.
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