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title: Making Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Useful
description: The output of transaction monitoring can be a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR). For SARs to be useful tools for law enforcement they need to be effectively prepared.
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# [Making Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Useful](https://www.amlrightsource.com/resources/making-suspicious-activity-reports-sars-useful)

 Written by [AML RightSource](https://www.amlrightsource.com/resources/author/aml-rightsource) | December 07, 2020

In this episode of AML Conversations, John Byrne, AML RightSource Executive Vice President, Chuck Taylor, AML RightSource Executive Vice President and Head of Financial Crimes Advisory, and Steve Gurdak, Group Supervisor, Northern Virginia Financial Initiative Washington/Baltimore HIDTA discuss Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs). During the conversation the look at how SARs support law enforcement investigations and what are best practices for preparing useful SARs.

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