At the scene of a crime, you need to look for witnesses, for people who may have seen or heard something that will be relevant to your case. You may even have to take negative statements. Statements from people nearby who didn’t see or hear anything. The thing is, it’s the police’s job to collect […]
Writing Crime – Obtaining A Search Warrant
In the past I’ve talked about police searches, but I didn’t go into detail about the search warrant itself and so I thought some people might be interested in the process of obtaining a warrant as well as what the warrant can do. I have already explained the circumstances in which police can search premises […]
Writing Crime – Blogs With Helpful Content
Today I’m going to point you in the direction of some other blogs that will potentially be helpful in your crime writing journey. As well as the weekly Monday blog here, you can look these blogs up and see what you think. Listing these blogs is not an endorsement, but somewhere for you to look […]
Writing Crime – The Emotional Impact
I thought I’d look at things a little differently in today’s Writing Crime blog post. Instead of writing a factual and procedurally correct post, I’m going to write something from a personal point of view. I’m going to go back to my days in the job and delve into how it felt when I was […]
Writing Crime – The Police Disciplinary Process
We’ve been looking at the promotion process in the police, but what about the disciplinary process. This one is a real pet hate of mine. Reading books where a supervising officer threatens to demote, get the officer sent back into uniform or worse, kicked out of the job. As though they can single handidly do […]
Writing Crime – Police Communication
Today I thought we’d have a look at something different. I’m full of a cold virus today so this post is easy to write up. I also thought it would be interesting to have a look at. Police communication systems. How do officers communicate with their control room? They do this with something called the […]
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