ABSTRACT
Most police agencies have a standard reporting format that they use. is format does not always allow a lot of latitude as to how the written report will be structured. One of the biggest drawbacks, in the author’s opinion, to this is that each section of the laboratory typically writes a report concerning only the particular evidence that they examined, a separate report is written on the crime scene investigation, and other reports are written on the follow-up investigation. Although this is an entirely appropriate approach, it is the lack of a summation report that oen leaves it up to the reader to attempt to collate all the results obtained and come up with overall conclusions.
