Thursday, 15 December 2016

Report Writing Sample#02: CLA Test-4 Kidnapped Boy

Sample Report

At 1545 hours on Sunday 06 April, 2011 a Timorese male went to the Comoro Police Station and reported that his 20 years old son Paolo had been missing since the previous night. He informed that, his son Paolo and their neighbor's daughter Mira had left their respective houses at 1900 hours to go a Thai restaurant near Cristore. At 2150 hours Mira returned but his son did not. He asked her and knows that at 2030 hours the night before they went to have a dinner and ten minutes later his son left with a group of five young people.

He also added that, today at 0845 hours he went to the restaurant and asked the owner whether anyone had seen his son. The owner informed him that one of his waitresses had seen his son, the previous evening, quarreling with five young males outside of the Thai restaurant. The waitresses described the males as being all about 20 years old, one individual had long black hair and another one had a ring in his left ear. Then they forced his son into a white Mini Microbus, which the speed off in the direction of hospital. The father gave the police a picture of his son and requested help to find him.  A case was open.

On 7 April, UNPOL along with PNTL conducted the primary investigation. They checked local hospital but nothing found. At the restaurant the police interviewed the owner and the waiters. Police got information that the suspect were all local Timorese and that one of  the waiters had remembered the registration number of the Microbus as TL0321. A police patrol located the suspect's vehicle parked on the Airport road 20km from Dili Police Station, at GR015156 and seized the registration book, which identified the name and address of the vehicle owner and also a wallet, which was identified as belonging to the missing boy.  Enquiries are continuing.

On 8 April, UN Police and PNTL searched the address shown in seized the registration book and arrested the owner of the Microbus, he told that he was  involved in the abduction. He stated that the victim had borrowed money from for drugs; he also gave the address of the house where the victim was being held. UNPOL and PNTL conducted a search of the house and rescued the boy who got a bruise chest and a broken left wrist. He was taken to the hospital and later return to his parents. Police also seizes a Smith Wesson revolver and 200 Ecstasy tablets from the house on Fomento Road. The victim was asked to come to the Police Station on 10th of April.

On 10 April, during interrogation officer Simon Matonga asked the victim about the accused the person and the others who assaulted him, he stated that he knew three of them, except the one who had assaulted him. He remembered the name of the suspect who was hitting him because the microbus owner called him as Martino. He gave the names and addresses of three of the accused. The investigating officer collected Martino's address from the microbus owner.



Report Writing

Wednesday, 14 December 2016

CLA-21: Death of Man in Port-Au-Prince Hospital

First Part (Reading  Comprehension)

Patrol Report:

On 21 October 2010 at 21.00 hours, United Nations Police (UNPOL) Patrol Team "Alfa" received a call from the duty officer of UN Team Site "West" in regard to the death of a local man who had just passed away in the Port-au-Prince hospital. The information was received from a duty physician in the hospital. According to him, the death was the result of a knife injury. Haitian National Police (HNP) were also notified and an investigation team was dispatched to the Hospital. UNPOL Patrol Team "Alfa|" headed by Oliver Johnson, proceeded to the hospital as well. 

Follow-up Report# 1:

Reference is made to the case of death of a local man in the Port-au-Prince hospital reported at 21.00 hrs. Upon UNPOL Team's arrival at the hospital at 21.15 hours, the local police team consisting of two (2) investigators was present and just started interviewing the attending physician, Carlos Pereira. The physician advised that the adult black male, later identified as Raoul Cocote, a 32 - year - old Haitian citizen and a practicing attorney, was taken at the Port-Au Prince Hospital via ambulance at 20.40 hours. The ambulance was called by a woman reportedly living with a victim. The patient arrived unconscious. The initial examination revealed a protruding knife injury with the knife left in the victim's chest. The doctor proceeded to provide emergency medical assistance but the victim passed away at 20;50 hours. In the hospital, Haitian National Police inspector, Mr. Arthur King, collected the knife, the victim's white shirt with blood stains and the victim's  driver's license . :UNPOL Team along with the Haitian police decided to go the victim's residence located at 53 Daiton Street, Apartment 7A.

Follow-up Report #2:

Reference is made to the case of the death of a local man in the Port-au-Prince hospital reported at 21.00 hrs. At 22.30 hours the joint UN and Haitian police team arrived at the victim's residence and made contact with Ms. Mia Teto, the victim's girlfriend. HNP Inspector King obtained a written statement from her. She seemed to be a primary and the only witness at that moment. Ms. Teto, a black female Haitian, 25 years old. stated that earlier that day, at 20.00 hours she heard a knock on the door of the residence where she lived with her boyfriend Raoul Cocote, and then Ms. Teto proceeded to open the door. Once the door was opened, two subjects forced their way into the residence. The two subjects pushed her toward the living room where Raoul Cocote was sitting, The first subject was described as approximately 1 m 75cm tall wearing blue jeans, red shirt, military boots and a black mask. The second culprit was appropriately 10 cm taller wearing black pants, a blue shirt and a white mask. When in the room, she stumbled over a bookshelf and fell down to the floor. The visitors had an argument with the victim and demanded to know where he hid his money. When Raoul refused to tell them where he kept his money, the shorter subject in the black mask proceeded to strike the victim with his hands. Raoul fell down on the floor and the same man continued beating him, repeatedly asking him for some hidden money. Meanwhile, the second subject wearing the white mask was searching the room. After 10-15 minutes of extensive searching, the second man failed to find any valuable things, which got him upset. He produced a knife in his body. Mia Teto was approximately three meters away and observed the attack. After they stopped attacking Raoul, the first subject threatened that if she called the police, they would return and kill her.Then both subjects ran out of the residence.She observed the knife protruding from her boyfriend's chest, and  at about 20.15 hours she called the Port au Prince Hospital, which dispatched an ambulance that arrived in about 15-20 minutes and took Raoul Cocote to the Hospital.