SNHU CJ205 Module 7 Project Latest 2020 August

CJ205 Policing in the United States

Module 7 Project

Competency

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. 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:

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:

Immediate Notification/Communication

Press Release

Social Media Post

Internal Report

Craft clear, objective policing communications without bias as attachments to your email. Include the following communication artifacts with your submission:

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.

Description of job

Injuries

Notifications to allied professionals

Street closures/traffic control

Hospital injured person is being transferred to

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.

Detailed summary of incident

Location

Date

Time

Vehicles involved

Description of accident/what occured

Response and hospital transfers

Status of victims

Status of investigation

Social Media Post: Social media draft post for your PIO

Internal Report: Formal police Motor Vehicle Crash Report

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.

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.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit multiple artifacts (listed below).

Email Template

Download and fill out the email template provided in the Supporting Materials section. Include the following in your completed document:

A 2- to 3-sentence description for each of the various types of communications (Immediate Notification/Communication, Press Release, Social Media Post, and Internal Report)

A description of how the communication method and style would change in relation to one artifact if you had a different role in law enforcement

A description of how the communication method and style would change in relation to one artifact if the audience changed

Communications Artifacts

The following are the attachments that would be included with your email. Submit each artifact as an individual file.

A 1- to 2-paragraph summary to dispatch (can be audio or written)

Bulleted information to send to your PIO for a press release

Drafted social media post for your PIO

Formal police Motor Vehicle Crash Report