While the local agency and law enforcement had been communicating about the critical incident, formal law enforcement policies and procedures influenced law enforcements ability to provide a formal CP report to the local agency within a timely manner as to not compromise the open law enforcement investigation.  While this delay in a making a formal report did not impact the trajectory of care in this case, it did influence the local agencies ability to complete a child protection intake within a timely manner of being made aware of the critical incident.