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In reply to the discussion: WAIT! So FDP Officer Wilson, whos ILLEGALLY refusing to make a report for fear of being incriminated [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)There is NO legal requirement for a specific officer on a call to file a report. Some officer on the call has to, but it was not legally required to be Wilson and in most agencies after something like this the senior officer on the shift does it, and includes the other officers statements. If 5 officers respond to a call 5 seperate reports don't get filed, just one covering the call.
The FOIA and state equivalents only apply to existing documents. Filing a FOIA report for a report from Wilson does not compel such a report to be created. If the report does not exist then it doesn't exist.
There is no law requiring any single officer to file a report, contrary to the original posters claims that Wilson is breaking the law. If anyone says there is please cite the specific law.