A GUIDE for PREPARING ANNUAL POLICE REPORTS - Tentative Draft - December 1928

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Guide for preparing annual police reports outlines a practical approach to producing brief, readable, and useful statements of police department work. The pamphlet explains why reports should avoid burdensome detail, how brevity can be achieved through selective inclusion and the use of tables, graphs, and charts, and how offense classifications and offender descriptions should be streamlined. It also establishes an order of tables and emphasizes that the introductory statement must be a carefully prepared account, not a simple transmittal letter.

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Foreword

Part I: Essential Facts for the Annual Report

The Introductory Statement

97-84142-28 International Associationof Chiefs of Police # A guide for preparingannual police reports New York 1928 ## COLUMBIA UNIVERSTY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISION BIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET ORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 308Intornntional associntion of chiefs of police.Committee on uniforn crine records.Box 497A guide for preparing annual police reports.Tentative draft,December,1928. llew York,Connitte on uniform crine records,IntertioneBssociation of chiefs of noline 1928,24 p. 25 cm.O 2 ### RESTRICTIONS ON USE: Reproductions may not be made without permission tfrom Columbia UniversityLibraries. TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA FILM SIZE: 5mREDUCTION RATIO: /2:1IMAGE PLACEMENT:IA(IIA)IB IIB INITIALS: TM/up DATE FILMED: 10 TRACKING\#: 25552 FILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA. # A GUIDE for PREPARINGANNUAL POLICE REPORTS Tentative Draft December,1928 3〇×497Z COMMITTEE ON UNIFORM CRIME RECORDSINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE A GUIDE for PREPARINGANNUAL POLICE REPORTS Tentative DraftDecember,1928COMMITTEE ON UNIFORM CRIME RECORDSINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE261 BROADWAYNEW YORK CITY ## CoMMITTEE ON UNIFORM CRIME RECORDS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE 禁 Police Committee Commissioner WiLLAM P.RUTLEDGE,Chairman,DetroitDeputy Superintendent JoHN H.ALcocK,ChicagoCommissioner ALFRED F.FooTE,MassachusetsChief JAcOB GRAUL,ClevelandChief THOMAS HEALY,New OrleansChief GEORGE G.HENRY,BaltimoreCommissioner JAMEs HcCGINs,BuffaloChief LV.JENKINS,PortlandChief AuGUST VoLLMER,Berkeley 禁 Advisory Committee DR.LENT D.UPsos,Chairman,Detroit Bureau of GovernmentalResearch De.RoBERT H.GAULT,Institute of Criminal Law and CriminologyDR.CHARLES E.GEHLKE,Western Reserve UniversityLEONARD V.HARR150x,New York CityDR.WLLIAM HEAL.Y,Judge Baker Foundation,Boston J.EDGAR HooVER,U.S.Department of JusticeDR.R.F.C.KIEB,Commissioner of Correction,State of New YorkDR.GEORGE W.KIRCHWEY,New York School for Social Work C.M.OsBORN,City Managers'AssociationW.M.STEUART,Director of the Census 禁 Staff BRUCE SMITH,Director L.S.TiMMERMAN DoNALD C.STONE AUDREY DAVIES FOREWORD THIS pamphlet is a by-product of the work now being conducted by the Com-Imittee on Uniform Crime Records.Its only connection with the major pro-gram of the Committee consists in the fact that the results of police records ap-pear in the annual report made by the police chief.Such reports need not beuniform throughout.However,certain types of information are uniformly de-sirable.For this reason the guide pretends only to suggest the kind of materialwhich might advantageously be included in the annual report of a police depart-ment. The form and content of the annual report here proposed is believed to repre-sent a well-rounded statement of the work of a police department.It is basedupon knowledge of the kind of records now maintained by police departments andhas been so framed that the preparation of tabular matter will not be undulyburdensome to police authorities.This guide has therefore been divided into twoparts;the first is devoted to subjects which are considered essential for any policereport;the second includes additional subjectssome of which may be of greatvalue,but as relatively few police forces would be prepared to deal with themat the present time,their inclusion cannot be set forth as a minimum requirement. Nearly all of the suggestions here presented are in tabular form and are in-tended to indicate generally not only the type of subject matter to be reportedbut also the manner in which it may be set up and presented. Some police departments do not now issue their annual reports in printedform.While it is not essential that a report following the lines here proposeds

FAQs

What is the main purpose of the guide for preparing annual police reports?

It provides a practical framework for suggesting the kinds of material that should be included in annual reports, aiming to make report preparation and presentation manageable and useful.

How does the guide recommend keeping annual reports brief without losing essential value?

It recommends rigorous elimination of nonessential items and the use of tables, graphs, and charts wherever possible.

What should the introductory statement contain?

The introductory statement should be a carefully prepared account of the police department’s work, not merely a letter of transmittal.

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