Pocket notebook (PNB)

What must be recorded

• Evidence

• Decision making process and rationale

• Job

• Who, where, when

• Descriptions

• Key details

• Everything dated and timed

• Someone who wasn’t there should be able to understand

The rules

• line through and initial mistakes

• Do not remove pages

• Do not leave plank spaces - line through

• Black ink only

• Start each TOD with day, date and location underlined

• At the end of TOD , line across the full width of the page

• Use capital letters for surnames, places and direct speech

Court

• when giving evidence in court you must be in possession of any document containing original notes of the case (PNB)

• Can be used to refresh memory or as an exhibit of evidence

When to use your PNB

• briefing notes

• Crime enquiries

• Initial accounts

• Victim offender witnesses

• Sightings

• Contemp notes/ interviews

• Intelligence

• First descriptions

• Evidence

• Any other content considered necessary to record

Retention

• by user for 2 years

• By area command for 8 years