Reference no: EM133847091
Assignment: Police
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Develop communications that are appropriate to audience, purpose, and task
Scenario
You are a recruit-in-training in Miami-Dade County, Florida, working with the field training officer (FTO) to whom you've been assigned. Your first call of the shift is to a fatal car accident on a local highway. You see the information provided in the scenario. After analyzing the scene, your FTO asks you to create written communications while she deals with crowd and traffic control.
Directions
Communication Artifacts
Your FTO has asked you to create communications related to the car accident you've received information about in this scenario PDF. You are going to submit your communication artifacts in an email. Be sure that your email and attached artifacts address all of the required elements:
A. Describe the different purposes and types of written reports and external communications within law enforcement. In the body of your email to your FTO, include a 2- to 3-sentence description for each of the following types of communications:
a. Immediate Notification/Communication
b. Press Release
c. Social Media Post
d. Internal Report
B. Craft clear, objective policing communications without bias as attachments to your email. Include the following communication artifacts with your submission:
a. Immediate Notification/Communication: A 1- to 2-paragraph summary to dispatch. This communication would then be forwarded to emergency medical technicians (EMTs) or fire and rescue workers, the hospital, and the Department of Transportation.
i. Description of job
ii. Injuries
iii. Notifications to allied professionals
iv. Street closures/traffic control
v. Hospital injured person is being transferred to
b. Press Release: Bulleted information to send to your public information officer (PIO) for a press release. Names and/or personal information (address, kin, etc.) should not be included.
i. Detailed summary of incident
• Location
• Date
• Time
• Vehicles involved
• Description of accident/what occured
ii. Response and hospital transfers
iii. Status of victims
iv. Status of investigation
c. Social Media Post: Social media draft post for your PIO
d. Internal Report: Formal police Motor Vehicle Crash Report Word Document
C. Within the body of your email to your FTO, choose one artifact and describe how the communication method and style would change if you had a different role in law enforcement. You may choose any other role in the policing and law enforcement field.
D. Within the body of your email to your FTO, choose one artifact and describe how the communication method and style would change if the audience changed.