Preliminary written observations recorded during investigations or at crime scenes.

• A. Incident Report
• B. Field Notes
• C. Intelligence-Led Policing
• D. Crime Analysis

Answer: (B)

Field notes are the on-scene or immediate-after documentation that captures what the investigator observes, hears, and records about a scene or investigation. They include specifics like times, locations, descriptions of evidence, conditions, statements or conversations, and rough sketches or measurements. This kind of writing preserves details while memories are freshest, and it serves as the raw material from which formal reports and subsequent analyses are built.

An incident report is a formal, finalized document created after the fact to officially record what happened for the agency; field notes are the initial, contemporaneous records that feed into that process. The other options refer to broader policing concepts—intelligence-led policing and crime analysis—that involve data-driven strategies and analyses rather than the immediate on-scene recording of observations.