Summary
"This paper discusses the responses of Calgary Police Service members, sworn and civilian, regarding whether to allow victims to report crime electronically. Each participant currently deals directly with crime reports. Members in the Communications Section and Records Processing Unit create police reports for minor crimes where no officer attends the scene. Sworn members dispatched to scenes of serious offences also participated in the study. A list of 37 offences in 9 categories ranging from minor to serious offences was included in the questionnaire. There were 105 respondents from the 275 surveys sent to the different work areas. Results indicate support for victims reporting minor offences online. Generation Xers were more willing to support an electronic reporting system than Baby Boomers. However, there were an overwhelming number of participants who did not support the reporting of serious offences online. Approximately half the respondents had less than five years of police experience."--Abstract.