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APCO POLICE COMMUNICATIONS 2026 EXAM TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
Typology: Exercises
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✔✔After getting the location of the emergency from the colour, the next most important piece of information is: - ✔✔Caller's call back number ✔✔Which type of crime has the highest incidence in Canada? - ✔✔Property crime ✔✔At what stage of the dispatch process would a dispatcher be monitoring on scene Communications by actively listening for transmissions that might go unnoticed? - ✔✔post-dispatch ✔✔Police dispatchers need to maintain radio contact with responders to ensure responses are all of the following except: - ✔✔Selective ✔✔In what year were Provincial Police Department established to police vast rural areas of Eastern Canada? - ✔✔ 1867 ✔✔Which of the following codes denotes a request that a breathalyzer operator is required? - ✔✔ 10 - 68 ✔✔Which of the following codes denotes a request by a police officer for location information? - ✔✔ 10 - 20 ✔✔What is used in Radio Systems to ensure that surveillance, special enforcement activities, or tactical operations are not compromised? - ✔✔Encryption ✔✔Tactical channels are often used for routine response calls where a single unit is attending a high priority call such as an armed robbery. - ✔✔False ✔✔Which one of these is not one of the critical information elements weighed and McPherson note as being part of a call takers Duty? - ✔✔Notify responding units of Post-Dispatch information ✔✔Which city is credited with deploying the first one way radio car in 1929? - ✔✔Detroit ✔✔According to police procedure, when a member of a police service is in doubt about the acceptability of any CAD related communication or activity, the member shall: - ✔✔Consult their supervisor ✔✔Which criminological theory suggests that crime is shaped by factors external to the individual, including their experiences within the neighbourhood, the peer group, and the family? - ✔✔Sociological
✔✔Aircraft emergencies can be called into a PSAP by the pilot or passenger on board, or buy a witness on the ground. - ✔✔True ✔✔Bomb threats may be called in by a first-party (The bomb maker) for a third-party (a witness or recipient of the bomb or the threat). - ✔✔True ✔✔An incident cannot be classified as a robbery if no weapon was used. - ✔✔False ✔✔From the list of incident types, identify which ones are crimes against persons. - ✔✔Abduction, adduction, stabbing/shooting, robbery, mischief, breaking and entering ✔✔In the event of a foot or vehicle Pursuit, the telecommunicator is usually responsible for which of the following? - ✔✔Alerting nearby units about the pursuit ✔✔Telecommunicator should handle all reports of missing persons equally, not thinking about circumstances, such as age, mental or physical condition or the suspect's behavior. - ✔✔False ✔✔A fail to remain incident type refers only to a vehicle striking a pedestrian and leaving the scene of the accident without providing any assistance or identification. - ✔✔False ✔✔APCO Guide cards include all caller questions, vital points questions, and often provide pre-arrival instructions. - ✔✔True ✔✔Which principles provide the foundation of Police Service delivery in Canada? - ✔✔Peel ✔✔How does a cad system sort and identify priority calls? - ✔✔Stacking ✔✔UCR data reflect reported crime that has been substantiated by the crown attorney in court. - ✔✔False ✔✔What is the first order of business for law enforcement organizations? - ✔✔Crime prevention ✔✔Who pointed to the differential opportunity structures available to lower class young people in different neighborhoods, such as criminal, conflict and retreatist as explanations of crime? - ✔✔cloward and Ohlin ✔✔What is the definition of IPAWS? - ✔✔The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
✔✔The English system was imposed on French areas of Lower Canada after 1859. - ✔✔False ✔✔Which of the following choices best describes the typical sequence of a law enforcement response? - ✔✔Dispatch, arriving on scene, making reasonable inquiries, and determining enforcement action. ✔✔During the colonial., law enforcement in cities like Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia and New York was influenced by models based on institutions from: - ✔✔Great Britain ✔✔Which police organization was established to police western territories relinquished by the Hudson Bay Company? - ✔✔Northwest Mounted Police ✔✔Data from the UCR survey provide key information for all of the following except: - ✔✔Crime initiation design ✔✔Which city was the first to have a system of police Telegraph boxes that allowed officers to report specific crimes back to the station? - ✔✔Chicago ✔✔Which of the following is used to designate the rank of deputy chief in Ontario? - ✔✔Crown and to Maple Leafs ✔✔Who believed that genetic inheritance and or abnormality led to a higher risk of crime? - ✔✔Lombroso ✔✔Municipal and provincial governments use UCR data to make decisions about the distribution Of police resources, definitions of provincial standards and for comparisons with other departments and provinces. - ✔✔True ✔✔These callers may be lonely individuals seeking attention. often, telecommunicators report success in dealing with these types of Colors by listening to the colour and providing reassurance that someone will respond, if needed. - ✔✔Chronic Callers ✔✔The call takers quick attention to proper information-gathering is only relevant if the dispatcher passes the relevant information quickly and accurately to the responding officer. - ✔✔True ✔✔What system keeps track of the location of active incidents and which units have been assigned to respond, therefore helping telecommunicators to better manage their resources? - ✔✔CAD system
✔✔Most CAD systems consider the incident type and the number of available units in recommending a response. - ✔✔False ✔✔Which of the following choices best describes ipaws? - ✔✔A modernized and integrated system of the Nations alert and warning infrastructure ✔✔How many tenets of Officer safety are listed by below 100? - ✔✔ 5 ✔✔This term describes calls that are dispatched by the Communication Center that received the call. - ✔✔Direct ✔✔which one of the following choices best describes the location within a location? - ✔✔A room within a building in a complex of buildings. ✔✔What are the two primary duties of the law enforcement telecommunicator? - ✔✔Call taking and dispatching ✔✔Being attentive to the first phrase spoken by the caller will typically provide an indication of the type and severity of the emergency being reported. This approach is an example of. - ✔✔Active listening ✔✔Municipal and provincial governments use UCR data to Aid decisions about the distribution of police resources, definitions of Provincial standards and for comparisons with other departments and provinces. - ✔✔True ✔✔In a major incident when many calls come into the PSAP about the same incident, only the first call is important because the other calls can be disregarded as redundant.
✔✔Which of the following codes denotes a request by a police officer for a vehicle registration information? - ✔✔ 10 - 28