You have arrived looking for DD Form 2712. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Prisoner Evaluation. Full title: DD Form 2712, Prisoner Evaluation, March 2013.
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
Fill every box as you come to it. If an item does not apply, enter N/A — an empty field looks like an oversight, and the form comes back to you. Watch the date fields especially: use the format the form specifies, not your habitual one.
Stop at the Privacy Act Statement and read it through. You will find the authority for the collection, the principal purpose, the routine uses, and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. Read it now, while you still have the choice of what to disclose.
Finish with the certification. Print the form and sign in ink, or apply a digital signature with your CAC if the receiving office accepts one. Do not type your name in the signature box and consider it done; that is a name, not a signature. Date the block immediately after signing.
Then check your work against the usual failures: an obsolete edition, empty required boxes, handwriting nobody can read after scanning, wrong date format, missing signature or date.
If a particular field puzzles you, read the instructions printed on the form first, then go to not stated. When the two disagree, follow the directive.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 33 fields.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
Go with the typed route whenever the choice is yours. Consider what happens after you submit: the copy gets scanned, forwarded and filed, and each pass costs handwriting some legibility. Block letters help if you are stuck with a pen.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- Report date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 1. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- 3. Branch of service.
- 4. Housing unit.
- 5. Detail.
- 6. Custody level.
- 7. Period covered: From (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Period covered: To (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 8. Completed by: X first box if dorm supervisor, second box if work supervisor, or third box if other.
- If other, specify.
- Section 1 - Attitude and Traits (completed by dorm and work supervisors). Conduct. Enter number from 1 (Unsatisfactory) to 3 (Conforms) to 5 (Exemplary).
- Discipline. Enter number from 1 (Disciplinary Action) to 3 (Minor Infractions) to 5 (No Infractions).
- Supervision required. Enter number from 1 (Constant) to 3 (Moderate) to 5 (Minimal).
- Attitude toward supervisor. Enter number from 1 (Poor) to 3 (Borderline) to 5 (Respectful).
- Cooperation. Enter number from 1 (Uncooperative) to 3 (Moderate) to 5 (Cooperative).
- Personality. Enter number from 1 (Unfavorable) to 3 (Fair) to 5 (Exceptional).
- Group conformity. Enter number from 1 (Easily led) to 3 (Complies) to 5 (Self-reliant).
- Influence on others. Enter number from 1 (Disruptive) to 3 (Neutral) to 5 (Positive).
- Initiative. Enter number from 1 (Minimal) to 3 (Average) to 5 (Energetic).
- Temperament. Enter number from 1 (Volatile) to 3 (Indifferent) to 5 (Stable).
- Total points, section 1.
- Section 2 - Work performance (completed by work supervisor only). Quality of work. Enter number from 1 (Poor) to 3 (Acceptable) to 5 (Outstanding).
- Productivity. Enter number from 1 (Minimal) to 3 (Average) to 5 (Excellent output).
- Total for Section 2.
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2712?
- DD Form 2712, Prisoner Evaluation, March 2013
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?