How should an agency report an incident when a law enforcement officer is assaulted while responding to another crime?
When a law enforcement officer suffers an aggravated assault while responding to another crime, the officer’s employing agency must report the officer’s assault on the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Form 1-705. The agency should report the aggravated assault on the Return A Form only if it is the most serious offense within the incident. On page 110 of the UCR Handbook, it states: In the section of the LEOKA Form 1-705 labeled OFFICERS ASSAULTED, agencies must record assaults on sworn officers. Reporting agencies must count all assaults that resulted in serious injury or assaults in which a weapon was used that could have caused serious injury or death. They must include other assaults not causing injury if the assault involved more than mere verbal abuse or minor resistance to an arrest. In other words, agencies must include in this section all assaults on officers, whether or not the officers sustained injuries. NOTE: Agencies must follow the Hierarchy Rule in
