Writing The Report

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If you were an investigator writing a report on a suspect whom you believe to be guilty but for whom the evide

If you were an investigator writing a report on a suspect whom you believe to be guilty but for whom the evidence is too weak to go to trial, would you exaggerate or add to the facts in your report? Why or why not?

Absolutely not! It's not worth losing my credibility, and eventually my career for. If the evidence is there, it is my job to find it if possible; if it's not there, then I am doing my job to the best of my ability. However, if you are taking a case so personal that you feel the need to embellish the facts or "create" evidence; then perhaps you need to reassign the case to another investigator. The first rule of policing is that you CANNOT take this job personally. The second rule is that you never assume anything. you cannot become so narrow in your search for the guilty person that you focus on one suspect and try to make the evidence fit to him. You let the evidence guide you and narrow your search. Just because a person appears to be guilty, does not necessarily mean that he is.

writing the report
writing the report
writing the report