Computers are our FRIENDS, riiiight....?

[shooter1201]

My department JUST got computerized. We now have the ability to put all our reports on computer and zip to who knows where. BUT...we still have to write out our incident/arrest/etc reports(the old fashioned way), IN ADDITION to doing all the TIBRS stuff on the computer.....

Oh, yeah...our 1-page Tennessee Uniform Citation(that we also used for our warrants/traffic tickets/ordinance violations/etc), just got replaced with a FOUR-paged warrant, and our 2-page incident report was replaced with a FOUR-paged nightmare.

Somebody remind me WHY I like this job...?

[ateamer]

Man, it sounds like the powers that be there are stuck in the dark ages. Four pages for a citation? Is somebody in the chief's office trying to justify their existence?

We use a regular citation for both traffic and misdemeanors. If it is an infraction, any necessary notes go on the back of the officer's copy. If it is a misdo, a report gets written - face sheet and narrative page. In-custody arrests necessitate a face sheet, narrative and statement of probable cause (shouldn't be more than three or four sentences) for the jail (gets read to a judge by telephone if the suspect won't be arraigned within 48 hours). On a crime report where a warrant is requested, it's just the face sheet and narrative, with an affidavit page attached by a detective. Really simplifies things.