1. Review the Annapolis Police Department's General Order of the police response to incidents of domestic violence

2. Create a PowerPoint presentation designed to teach the major aspects of the order to the community. Focus your presentation on areas that provide the opportunity for officers to use discretion in handling this type of incident. Focus on the primary issues relating to making arrests, the seizure of firearms, and the requirement to write a police report to document the incident. The Annapolis Police Department General Order on Domestic Violence Download Annapolis Police Department General Order on Domestic Violence can be located by clicking on the link and selecting download.

3. Utilize an optional design format and include pictures and/or graphics to help you get and keep the attention of your audience.

4. Include just the key points and graphics on the slides. Be careful not to put to many words on a slide.

5. Include a well organized system of detailed notes, in bullet format, in the "Notes Area" of the presentation. This area is located directly beneath the slide. A sample PowerPoint slide with notes is posted on the Modules Page to assist you with the format of your presentation.

6. Your notes should contain between five and seven bulleted points of information, in the Notes Area and not on the slide, supporting the key points on each slide. Use intext citations throughout your notes, just like you would for a course paper. Include the Works Cited information in the notes area of your final, or concluding, slide.

Your presentationshould be a minimum often slidesin lengthand contain organized anddetailed notes forat least eightof the slides.Detailed notes are an extremely important part of the assignment. You can include as many slides, over the minimum or ten, as you would like as part of your presentation.