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REVIEW QUESTIONS: CHAPTER 01

1. What is Report Writing?

 Report Writing is a communication that lends itself to a useful tool for people in a free
society to express their thoughts and ideas and to obtain what they need or want. It is a
natural and necessary part of the very job description of an investigator.
2. What are common types of report?

 Formal or Informal Reports

 Short or Long Reports
 Informal or Analytical Reports
 Proposal Report
 Vertical or Lateral Reports
 Internal or External Reports
 Periodic Reports
 Functional Reports
3. What are the Six Key Elements of Reports?

 Whom the report is about and/or prepared for;

 What was done, what problems were addressed, and the results, including conclusions
and/or recommendations;
 Where the subject studied occurred;
 When the subject studied occurred;
 Why the report was written (function), including under what authority, for what reason, or
by whose request; and
 How the subject operated, functioned, or was used.
4. What are the common organizational patterns of information in Reports?

 Direct Pattern
 Indirect Pattern
5. What are the information organization methods in Reports?

 Time
 Component
 Importance
 Criteria
 Convention

6. What is Investigation?

 Investigation is the collection of facts to accomplish a threefold aim.

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7. What are the Six Cardinal Points of Investigation?

 What specific offense has been committed;

 How the offense was committed;
 Who committed it;
 Where the offense was committed;
 When it was committed; and
 Why it was committed.
8. What is Investigative Reporting?

 Investigative Reporting is an objective statement of the investigator’s findings. It is an

official record of information relevant to the investigation which the investigator submits
his/her superior.
9. What is the importance of Investigative Writing?

 They serve as good record for police administrators in planning, directing, and organizing
the unit’s duties;
 Reports can be used as legal documents in the prosecution of criminals;
 Reports can be used by other agencies;
 Reports can be useful to local media that needs access to public documents;
 The author of a report should also consider that the (written) work is reflective of the
writer’s personality; and
 Reports can be a basis for research.
10. What are the requisites of a good Investigative Report?

 Accuracy
 Completeness
 Brevity
 Fairness
 Form and Style
 Clarity
 Specific
 Timeliness
11. What are the Five Basic Steps in Investigative Report Writing?

 G – Gather the facts

 R – Record the facts
 O – Organize the facts
 W – Write the report
 E – Evaluate the report by editing and proofreading
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REVIEW QUESTIONS: CHAPTER 02

1. What is Grammar?

 Grammar is the study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and
relations in the sentence. It is the structure of writing.
2. What is a Composition?

 A composition is the way a writer assembles words and sentences to create a coherent
and meaningful work. Composition can also mean the activity of writing, or the nature of
the subject of a piece of writing, or the piece of writing itself. Compositions can be called
an essay, report, presentation or a term paper.
3. What are the types of Composition in Writing?

 Description
 Narration
 Exposition
 Argumentation
4. What are the 9 Parts of Speech and their usage?

 Nouns- These are names of people, places, or things. They are often the subject in a
sentence. A singular noun takes a singular verb in a sentence; a plural noun takes a plural
verb.
 Pronouns- It refers to or substitutes a noun in a given sentence.
 Verbs- It shows action or a state of being.
 Adverbs describes action verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. They answer the questions
HOW? WHY? WHEN? WHERE? HOW MUCH? or TO WHAT DEGREE? To
determine whether to use an adverb or an adjective, locate the word it describes.
 Adjectives are words that describe or indicate degree. Adjectives are used to describe
nouns or pronouns. Adjectives are also used after linking verbs.
 Articles- These are words that define a noun as specific or unspecific. The articles in the
English language are the, a, and an.
 Prepositions- It is a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase,
to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object.
5. What are Nouns?

 These are names of people, places, or things. They are often the subject in a sentence. A
singular noun takes a singular verb in a sentence; a plural noun takes a plural verb.
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6. What are Pronouns?

 It refers to or substitutes a noun in a given sentence.

7. What are the Verb Tenses?

 Present Tense
 Past Tense
 Future Tense
 Present Perfect Tense
 Past Perfect Tense
 Future Perfect Tense
 Present Progressive Tense
 Past Progressive Tense
 Future Progressive Tense
8. What are the differences in the usage of Adverbs and Adjectives?

 Adverbs describes action verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. They answer the questions
HOW? WHY? WHEN? WHERE? HOW MUCH? or TO WHAT DEGREE? To
determine whether to use an adverb or an adjective, locate the word it describes.
 Adjectives are words that describe or indicate degree. Adjectives are used to describe
nouns or pronouns. Adjectives are also used after linking verbs.
9. What are the different types of Prepositions?

 Prepositions of Direction
 Prepositions of Time
 Prepositions of Location
 Prepositions of Spatial Relationships
10. What is the usage of Articles in a sentence?

 Definite Article- It limits the meaning of a noun to one particular thing. The definite
article is the word “the”. It can be used with a singular, plural, or uncountable nouns.
 Indefinite Article- It takes two forms. It’s the word “a” when it precedes a word begins
with a consonant. It’s the word of “an” when it precedes a word begins with a vowel. The
indefinite article indicates that a noun refers to a general idea rather than a particular
thing.
11. What are Conjunctions?

 Conjunctions are words that link other words, phrases, or clauses together. It allows the
writer to form complex, elegant sentences to avoid the choppiness of multiple short
sentences.
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12. What are Interjections?

 Interjections are words or phrases that are grammatically independent from the words
around it, and mainly express feeling rather than meaning.
13. What is the Subject Verb Agreement?

 Subject-Verb Agreement refers to the grammatical concept that the subject of a sentence
must align with the main verb of that same sentence.
14. What are the 11 Rules in the Subject Verb Agreement?

1. When the subject of a sentence is composed of two or more nouns or pronouns connected
by and, use a plural verb.
2. When two or more singular nouns or pronouns are connected by “or” or “nor”, use a
singular verb.
3. When a compound subject contains both a singular and a plural noun or pronoun joined
by “or” or “nor”, the verb should agree with the part of the subject that is nearer than the
verb.
4. “Doesn’t” is a contraction of does not and should be used only when with a singular
subject. “Don’t” is a contraction of do not and should used only with a plural subject. The
exception to this rule appears in the case of the first person and second person pronouns I
and you. With these pronouns, the contraction “don’t” should be used.
5. Do not be misled by a phrase that comes between the subject and the verb. The verb
agrees with the subject, not with a noun or pronoun in the phrase.
6. The words each, each one, either, neither, everyone, everybody, anybody, anyone,
nobody, somebody, someone, and no one are singular and require a singular verb.
7. Nouns such as civics, mathematics, dollars, measles, and news require singular verb.
When talking about an amount of money, it requires a singular verb, but when referring
to the dollars themselves, a plural verb is required.
8. Nouns such as scissors, tweezers, trousers, and shears require plural verbs.
9. In sentences beginning with “there is” or “there are,” the subject follows the verb. Since
“there” is not the subject, the verb agrees with what follows.
10. Collective nouns are words that imply more than one person but that are considered
singular and take a singular verb, such as group, team, committee, class, and family.
11. Expressions such as with, together with, including, accompanied by, in addition to, or as
well, do not change the number of the subject. If the subject is singular, the verb is too.
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REVIEW QUESTIONS: CHAPTER 03

1. What is a Sentence?

 A sentence is a word, clause, or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a

synthetic unit which expresses an assertion, a question, a command, a wish, an
exclamation, or the performance of an action, that in writing usually begins with a capital
letter and concludes with appropriate end punctuation, and that in speaking in
distinguished by characteristic patterns of stress, pitch, and pauses.
2. What are the Four Types of Sentences?

 Declarative Sentence
 Exclamatory Sentence
 Imperative Sentence
 Interrogative Sentence
3. What are the Types of Sentence Structures?

 Simple Sentence
 Compound Sentence
 Complex Sentence
 Compound-Complex Sentence
4. What is the difference between Active and Passive Voice?

 Active Voice- the subject of a sentence is followed by the verb then the object of the
verb.
 Passive Voice- the object of the verb is followed by the verb and then the subject. If the
subject is omitted, it may result in confusion about who performed the action.
5. What is a Paragraph?

 Paragraphs are the building block of all documents. It is a series of sentences that are
organized and coherent, and are all related to a single topic.
6. What are the elements of a Paragraph?

 Unity
 Coherence
 A Topic Sentence
 Adequate Development
7. What are the approaches in organizing information in a Paragraph?

 What information comes first, the topic sentence or the supporting sentence will depend
on the type of paragraph; It is either a direct or indirect approach.
8. What is the importance of short-hand expressions and codes in Radio
Communication?
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 Short-hand and codes are useful for radio communication, especially in transferring
information quickly. It’s important to make sure everyone’s on the same page with which
terminology you’re using and what it all means, so make sure all radio users know and
understand all the terms in advance.
9. What are some of the 10-codes used in two-way radio communication?

10-1 Receiving Poorly

10-2 Receiving Well
10-3 Stop Transmitting
10-4 OK, Message Received
10-5 Relay Message
10-6 Busy, Stand By
10-7 Out of Service, Leaving Air
10-8 In Service, subject to call
10-9 Repeat Message
10-10 Transmission Complete, Standing By

10. What is the Phonetic Alphabet?

 The radio phonetic alphabet, more correctly be termed the radiotelephony spelling
alphabet, is used for unambiguously spelling out words by letter, often over radio or
telephone connections. It is a set of words that are used to stand for the letters of an
alphabet. The words in the phonetic alphabet are used to represent the name of the letter
with which it starts. The following are the Phonetic Alphabet:
A ALPHA N NOVEMBER
B BRAVO O OSCAR
C CHARLIE P PAPA
D DELTA Q QUEBEC
E ECHO R ROMEO
F FOXTROT S SIERRA
G GOLF T TANGO
H HOTEL U UNIFORM
I INDIA V VICTOR
J JULIET W WHISKEY
K KILO X X-RAY
L LIMA Y YANKEE
M MIKE Z ZULU
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VIEW QUESTIONS: CHAPTER 04

1. What is a Police Report?

 A police report is an exact narration of facts that are discovered during a criminal
investigation and series as a permanent written record for future reference. It is a
documentation made by a police officer or law enforcement personnel which includes the
important details and events about an accident.
2. What are the Uses of Police Report?

 Identification of Criminals
 Investigative Record
 Court Preparation
 Civil Liability Assessment
3. What are the General Contents of a Police Report?

 Initial Information
 Identification of the Crime or Incident
 Identification of the Involved Parties
 Victim/ Witness/ Suspect Statements
 Crime Scene Specifics/ Description
 Property Information
 Officer Actions/ Observations
4. What are the categories of Police Reports?

 Operational Reports
 Internal Business Reports
 Technical Reports
5. What is the importance of the Police Report Format?

 A police report is a necessity in the practice of law enforcement. Police reports are used
by every law enforcement to help pass information around in an orderly and professional
manner. Report templates can help a Law Enforcer pass around information in general.
They can also do it in an orderly and neat fashion so that the information they are passing
never seems unprofessional and messy-making it easier to digest. These report templates
help them in properly formatting a report for their job as a police officer.
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6. What is a Spot Report?

 Spot Report is an immediate initial investigative or incident report addressed to

Higher Headquarters pertaining to the commission of the crime, occurrence of natural or
man-made disaster or unusual incidents involving loss of lives and damage to properties.
7. What is a Progress Report?

 Progress Report is an accounting of the actions or series of actions undertaken in relation

to an ongoing investigation of a case.
8. What is an After-Operation Report?

 After-Operation Report is a report that may be rendered after any successful police
operation that leads to an arrest of any member of some members of a syndicated crime
group.
9. What is a Final Report?

 Final Report is a thorough, in-depth and lengthy account regarding an investigation into
an incident or case as mandated by higher authorities to establish a determination of the
truth and/or how far it could be determined based on the facts and circumstances with the
appropriate recommendation for the proper course/s of action/s to be made.
10. What is an Investigation Report?

 Investigation Report is a document that details the findings of an investigation as soon as

formal complaint is filed or an incident occurs. This is where investigators record the
issues of the matter, analyze the evidence, and formulate a conclusion.
11. What is a Situation Report?

 The Situation Report (SITREP) is a form of status reporting that provides decision-
makers and readers a quick understanding of the current situation. It provides a clear,
concise understanding of the situation-focusing on meaning or context, in addition to the
facts.
12. What is a Special Report?

 A Special Report is prepared and presented not as a matter of routine. This is prepared on
the basis of inquiry or investigation either by a single individual or by a body or a
committee or a sub committee or a commission specially formed and entrusted with the
duty. It is in many cases of confidential type and contains apart from facts and
information, some recommendations.