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OBJECTIVE
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• What is Field notes, note taking and field interview.
• Importance of Field Notes
• Purpose of Field notes
• Uses of Officer’s Field Notes
• The Field notebook: Its size and types.
• Proper methods of note taking
• Lastly, the proper format.

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 FIELD
NOTES
 Are brief notations concerning specific events which encounters in
the performance of his duties.
 The collection of an individual officer’s notes can serve as a general
index to the officer’s memory.
It provide a short written record of events, time, places, suspects,
witnesses, and other information.
 It obtained from the officer’s direct observation.
Correlates to the field interview.

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 NOTE
TAKING
Defined as a brief notations concerning specific events that are
recorded while fresh in your mind and used to prepare a report.
Forces investigators to be more observant.
Should detailed every step you took while at the crime scene.
Description of Physical evidence, location and time of discovery
and packaging.

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 FIELD
INTERVIEW
• Interview is the
questioning of a person
who may or does posses
information relevant to
the matter under
investigation.

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 IMPORTANCE OF FIELD
NOTES
• Field notes are the shorthand written record made by police officers
from the time they arrive at the scene.
1) More Reliable than Officer’s memory.
2) Primary information source for incident or offense report.
3) Detailed field notes may reduced the need to re-contact the parties
involved.
4) Used to define the integrity of the incident/offense report.
5) Field notes can be sub- open for court.

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 PURPOSE OF FIELD
NOTES
Report writing References Evidence
• Field notes provide basis for • Fields notes serve as the handy • It is a permanent record
reports. reference for further
investigation. It can used as an and may be used as
• Provides a skeletal frame of
the significant factors related
initial starting point for further evidence.
investigation efforts. • Accurate and complete
to the event which later • Can be compared to other
developed into complete subsequent investigative notes fields notes can be
report. for inconsistent patterns of valuable and admissible
• Document the parties statements and behavior of as an evidence.
contacted and parties principal parties involved.
involvement in the incident. • Sketches can be used to
(Time, Events, and reconstruct the crime scene.
Statements) Presentation of graphic
illustration of the scene.
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 USES OF OFFICER’S FIELD
NOTES
a) Basis for final report
b) Record specific events
c) Identify individuals
d) Identify locations and times
e) Chronology of investigation
f) Reveal inconsistencies
g) Reveal leads
h) Refresh memories
i) Used as evidence
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 THE FIELD
NOTEBOOK
• A law enforcement officer should consider the notebook to be an
essential part of his equipment. It helps in recalling and recording all
information relative to an incident or crime.
• The notebook should be one that can easily be carried in the officer’s
hip pocket. 42 by 6
Looseleaf notebook – Advantage: The page is removal for easy case by case
filling. Disadvantage: Person can imply notebook alterations took place prior
to courtroom testimony.
Bound notebook- It cannot be altered easily; however, under the scrutiny of
cross0 examination or discovery, notes pertinent to other investigation
contained in the notebook may be compromised.
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Example
 PROPER METHODS
OF NOTE TAKING
• Entries in the notebook – Field notes should contain information
pertinent only to the event under examination.
• Personal nature, extraneous information, or personal opinions.
• Fields notes should be accurate, complete, and legible.
• Should be understandable and readable.
• What, Who, Where, When, How, with What, Why, with Whom, and
How Much.

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 FORMAT

A. A record of time and date of arrival should be made.

B. Weather conditions should be noted upon arrival.
C. The officer should note and record his/her observations and the
condition of the scene upon his arrival.
 Take note: In the events of errors in notes, the errors should not be
erased. The line should be drawn and initialed by the officer. Avoid
using shorthand or abbreviations because it may occur in transcribing
the fact that many people have no knowledge of shorthand systems.

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 GROUP 3
Astrero jr. Lorence
Ballesteros, Mark Vincent
Daileg, Lorence T.
Dela Cruz, Jay Mark
Directo, Reymart B.
Enrico, Jan Derick C.
Gutierrez, Eloisa C.
Tumamao, Justine
Reboca, Mark Anthony 13
Salviejo, Marthina Bea