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Police handover

Prepare a police report from sealed evidence. A person checks the drafted statement and files it; Witnal keeps the crime reference against the incident.

A cast-iron police lamp on an ornate bracket against a stone façade in London.
Where the report goes. A person files it; the reference comes back.Photograph: Francois Olwage, Unsplash.

Prepare the police handover

A statement drafted from the evidence

Witnal drafts the witness statement from the sealed segments and the account on the record, in the structure police digital evidence systems expect. Where the evidence is silent, the draft says so in a list of open questions for the witness rather than guessing. You approve it or you do not. Witnal never submits on your behalf.

Find the reporting route

Witnal suggests a force from your postcode. Check it before filing, especially near a force boundary. The report includes your approved statement and the sealed exhibits; a person submits it through the force's reporting channel. If the right channel is 999, Witnal says so and you dial.

A number you can chase

The crime reference that comes back is kept against the incident, with a date on every step. Six days of silence becomes a fact you can raise rather than a feeling.

Lawful sharing, nothing else

Where the shop belongs to a Business Crime Reduction Partnership or the National Business Crime Solution, Witnal prepares the share into the scheme, with the lawful basis recorded against it. No membership, no share.

Figure 2. The report prepared for handover; the reference comes back to the record.statement, approvedexhibits 01, 02SHA256SUMSa person files itthe right forcereference returns
Figure 2. The report prepared for handover; the reference comes back to the record.