Creating Incident Reports

To create an incident report an officer must open their Police National Computer (PNC) and navigate to the “Create Incident Report” Page as seen in fig. 1 left. 

Once an officer is on this page the following things need to be completed however there is no set order they need to be completed in however:

1. Link the Report to an identity;

2. Link the Report to a case file;

3. Link the Report to An officer;

4. Add offences to the report;

5. Write out the details of the report;

6. Add a title to the report. 

There are 2 ways a report can be linked to an identity;

1. Via a Unique fingerprint number

2. Via Citizen Name/ID

Note: It is always preferred to link a report to a fingerprint number and then link that fingerprint number to a citizen this ensures that all offences are recorded against a fingerprint as opposed to an individual and the individual is then also linked to that fingerprint.  

To link an identity an officer first needs to select the search Suspect button then insert either the fingerprint number, Citizen ID or Citizen Name. This will generate a list of results in the right-hand panel of the PNC as can be seen in fig 2 right. The officer should select the appropriate result.

Note: It is possible to assign multiple suspect identities to a report however doing this will prevent you from being able to convict that report and no recommended sentences will be generated.

To link an officer to reports an officer needs to:

1.  Select the Link Officer button at the bottom of the report. Once the officer does this a list of the on-duty officers will be displayed in the right panel of the PNC along with a search box. 

2. The officer then needs to select all the involved officers by clicking on them or searching for their name in the search box.

To add offences to a report an officer must select the add charges button at the bottom of the incident report. This will then bring up a list of offences in the right Panel of the PNC as well as a search box. The officer can then click on the relevant offences to add them to the report.

6.1 Charge Stacking

Charge stacking or laddering is adding a multiple of the same charge or related charges for the same actions for example if X is seen speeding and then when an officer attempts to pull them over they fail to stop and drive in a dangerous manner by speeding further, failing to stop for red lights and driving on the pavement X should only be charged with dangerous driving and failure to stop for the police as the other traffic offences are encompassed by the dangerous driving.  

However, the court has ruled that in the case of offences against the person multiple of the same charge can be added if they were against different victims for example if Y punched Chief Inspector Solar, Shorts Inspector Martenez and Sergeant Winters then they could be charged with:

1x Assaulting an Emergency Worker (CI Solar)

2x S18 Causing Wounding or grievous bodily harm with intent (INSP Martinez and Sgt Winters)

To link a case file to an indecent report an officer needs to:

1.  go to the evidence locker or evidence processing room;

2. Search for the case file by number;

3. Select the Linked PNC Reports Option;

4. Click the "ADD MDT Report" button;

5. Type in the incident report number