We don’t have a policy specifically on after-action reports, but I can explain how it works. After-action reports are completed any time we need to document/review/assess how something went and we are not using a simple law enforcement report. Most after-action reports are created using what our agency calls an “IOC” (inter-office correspondence) which is the equivalent of a memo. It has a specific format, margins, fonts, etc. . There are a few after-action reports that need to capture very specific information, so those are actually agency forms. Those types of after action reports include Extra Duty After Action Reports, Negotiations Response Team After Action Reports and Hurricane After Action Reports. For the more generalized after-action reports, we typically do them after operational plans, special teams deployments, including Honor Guard, SWAT, Bomb Squad, etc. . Patrol and Communications also do them for various events or something like an evacuation of our Communications Center. I have attached a few examples.
Captain Kaley Behl
Alachua County Sheriff’s Office
kbehl@alachuasheriff.org