FINAL PROJECT GUIDELINES
You are the training officer at the Alexandria Police Department. You are asked to put together a training presentation on the proper methods of following Criminal Procedure. Your department does not want to end up on CNN so it is vital you train your officers in the right methods needed. You are to create an informative and fun presentation. You should cover all of the following topics: Search and Seizure, Stop and Frisk, Probable Cause and Arrest, Inspections and Regulatory Searches, Interrogations and Confessions, Eyewitness and Scientific Identification as well as the Exclusionary Rule and Entrapment. There should be case law referenced as well as which Amendment it falls under. Examples of what is allowed and what is not would add to the presentation. Be creative, remember, no one likes to sit through a borrowing presentation.
Each topic should have at least three slides to go with it. Feel free though to use as many slides as needed to properly train your officers. These topics are pulled straight from your table of contents in your textbook.
Here is a quick breakdown:
1 – Cover Slide
21 – Slides covering the above topics (minimum)
1 – Reference Slide
Below are 10 points to follow:
1. Maintain your tense. Past tense is preferred. When using pronouns (he, she, they) use 1st person, such as I or we.
Example of error frequently seen: I drove up in her front yard. She comes running out of the house.
2. Refrain from using contractions, such as don’t and can’t. Do not use jargon (street talk), clichés (hotter than a cat on a hot tin roof), abbreviations or acronyms (FBI, BOP). Abbreviations may be used after they have first been spelled out. Example: I worked for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
Then, you may use that abbreviate in the body of the paper.
3. The text should be left justified, double-spaced, with one inch margins on all 4 sides. This may be different for your PowerPoint. You are allowed to place however you would like on your slides.
4. All PowerPoints should include a cover slide and a reference slide.
5. Do not use anything smaller than 12 point type and Times New Roman font.
6. Slides should be detailed and informative.
7. You will need to add pictures, charts and/or Youtube videos.
8. If you use quotes, follow APA guidelines on referencing. Try NOT to quote. Give credit on your References page to EVERY source you used. Cite the sources, according to the APA format, throughout the body of the paper. Do not submit your work until you have run spell-check, or another spelling program on it. Spelling matters! Correct punctuation matters, too!