Voluntary programs

  For more than a decade, a voluntary program has been moving law-enforcement agencies away from the basic incident-report format and toward a detailed format that documents much more data about an offense. This program, the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), was created as part of the Uniform Crime Reports and is administered by the FBI. It is in use in over 4,000 small and medium-size local law-enforcement agencies throughout the country, as well as a growing number of jurisdictions with populations in excess of 250,000. Please answer the following questions: Identify and briefly discuss four reasons why field notes are important. What are the six interrogatory investigative questions? Explain each. Briefly discuss the operational and administrative uses of incident reports. How would you characterize the difference between basic incident reports and those that are NIBRS compliant? (Check the Internet for additional information on how these reports differ).