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From the earliest days of organized policing, officers have written incident reports that capture details regarding crimes, victims, offenders, suspects, locations, and the nature of injuries and losses. Incident reports provide the foundation for ongoing investigations and prosecutions, and supplemental reports (e.g., victim and witness statements, investigative notes, and evidence inventories) often contribute to the incident\u2019s case file.<a href=\"#1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> In addition to individual incident reports and case files, police agencies have also maintained police registers or blotters, which typically provide summary details of reported incidents throughout their jurisdictions. Available to the press and the public, the police blotter provides a chronological record of incidents and police activities within a jurisdiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk"],"acf":{"post_author":"<strong>David J. Roberts, Senior Program Manager, IACP Technology Center<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Karen Lissy, MPH, Crime, Violence, and Justice Unit, RTI International<\/strong>","legacy_article_id":"3068","legacy_issue_id":"92013","main_category":"Technology Talk"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Technology Talk: Incident-Based Reporting\u2014The Foundation of Effective Police Operations and Management - Police Chief Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/incident-based-reportingthe-foundation-of-effective-police-operations-and-management\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Technology Talk: Incident-Based Reporting\u2014The Foundation of Effective Police Operations and Management\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Law enforcement recordkeeping practices are critical tools in effective operations and management. 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