“…Police reports are initially the outcome of behavioral observations, forensics, and interviews or interrogations conducted by the police officers themselves. Here, the competencies, work experience and even word choice of police officers performing investigative interviews and interrogations might affect the data collection, which forms the basis of the subsequent police reports (e.g., Loftus and Palmer, 1974 ; Loftus, 1975 ; Shaw and Porter, 2015 ; Thielgen et al, 2022 ). Secondly, the written product is predominantly a memory report with a time delay, at least to some extent.…”