Question

Explain in 3 sentences how police call sheets are used in law enforcement

Answer 1

Our department didn’t call them, “call sheets”, we called them “Deputy Daily Worksheets, or DDWS. Logs for short. We had to account for every minute of the day on the log. If we got a call, it went on the log, along with the time received. The time we went enroute, arrived and finished also were entered. If we stopped to write a report, that was added to the entry under the, “Report Writing”, heading. If we self initiated something, that went on the long, with the start and finish time. If we were enroute to a call and decided to interrupt the roll to do something else, the enroute time was stopped on the first call and an enroute time, or start time was started on the second entry. When that was finished, we went enroute to the initial call again. Unaccounted for time was listed as patrol minutes at the end of the shift. When you turned in your log, the minutes had to add up to 480 minutes. Trainees often screwed this up and would have to stay late, unpaid, trying to figure out, where they screwed up and correct their log. You don’t (or didn’t) get paid to do something you should have done during your shift.

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Answer 2

We used them as an hourly shift justification - where we were what we were doing (computers and GPS do it now). If there was an arrest, traffic stop or incident, it was recorded on the call sheet and a small description with any number assigned. The totals were recorded and turned into the shift supervisor - who would take the report, arrest information and any other paperwork necessary.

The paperwork had to match the dispatcher call sheet and could be used by the union to complain about breaks and lunches being missed. The stats from each call sheet was used in reporting to the FBI crime statistics reports and for state and local reporting - ie number of calls, traffic incidents and violent calls.

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