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Course Overview:

Just as motor vehicle crashes require investigation, they also require report writing.  In many cases, both the investigation and the report writing leave a lot to be desired in regard to completeness.  This class focuses on the report itself.  This legal document, a representation of the investigator's factual findings, serves numerous purposes well after the damaged vehicles have been removed from the scene and the non-life threatening injuries recovered from.  When these cases go through the deposition process and the actual court appearance, is when the investigator who has written a thorough report will realize the importance of their earlier actions.

Who should attend this course:

This course is designed for any law enforcement officer that is required to complete crash investigation reports and/or review those same reports. 

Course Content:

• Types of crash reports
• Chain of custody issues
• Who the investigator should speak with at the scene and thereafter
• Are procedural safeguards in place?
• Avoiding the cross examination favorites of bias and conflict
• What is needed within your report to assist in your judicial qualification as an expert
• How public records and hospital records can be instrumental to your report
• Dying declarations
• How your report may involve municipal and state liability based upon notations as to street lights, signs and road conditions
• How your report can aid the District Attorney
• Proper inclusion of demonstrative evidence (Chalks, diagrams, photos, formula derivations, etc)
• Avoiding the pitfalls of irrelevant information and incomplete evidence
• Legal presumptions that are allowed in an investigation and how they are incorporated in the report
• Proper inclusion of photographs with the report, issue of authentication, foundation of camera operator and standard acceptance by the local courts
• What current case law states about the retrieval and downloading of the Event Data Recorder (EDR) and how you should document this process
• Appropriate use of disclaimers within the report
• Avoiding the administrative pitfalls of noncompliance with Department Policies and Procedures and mandated involvement by the local District Attorney's Office.
• Plus much more!

Tuition $ 169 US

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