Saving Officers Time in the Long Run: Factors that Contribute to Writing
Proficiency in Law Enforcement Reports
Abstract
This essay is written from a career police officer’s perspective and
includes a literature review of police trade journals and scholarly
articles related to police reports and written communication. The work
also explores Yrjö Engestrom’s (1987) activity systems theory and shows
how this theory is associated with the practice and modeling of police
reports.