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When is the best time to search your patrol vehicle for weapons or contraband? - ✔✔ANS The beginning of your shift and when non- personell have been in your vehicle You can arrest for the following offenses: - ✔✔ANS 1) OWI
- Fleeing and Eluding
- Negligent homicide
- No Operator's License
- Reckless Driving
- Hit & Run
- Violation causing death While on patrol you discover a vehicle parked in a lot behind a jewelry store at 0300 and the motor is running. The proper way to investigate would be to do which of the following? (A) Position patrol vehicle at a safe distance and wait for someone to return (B) Investigate and see if there is suspicious activity
(C) Take down license plate number and contact dispatch - ✔✔ANS (C) Take down license plate number and contact dispatch You receive a report from dispatch of a possible domestic dispute in progress. The caller states the neighbors are arguing and requests police. Dispatch says the caller heard gunshots coming from the residence. You arrive and it's quiet. The lights are off. The correct way to respond would be to do which of the following? (A) Go to the door, announce your presence, and wait for a response (B) Proceed cautiously and silently enter the house (C) Verify with dispatch that you have the correct ad - ✔✔ANS (C) Verify with dispatch that you have the correct address and wait in patrol car to see if there are signs of movement The best method of determining a stolen vehicle that is not moving would be to do which of the following? (A) Check VIN through LEIN (B) Check license plate through LEIN (C) Check suspect's driver's license number and plate through LEIN - ✔✔ANS (A) Check VIN through LEIN While on patrol in a dark alley behind a store, you see someone walking towards you. He sees you, reaches in his pocket, puts something in dumpster, then turns and walks away. You should:
(A) Shotgun (B) Nightstick (C) Handgun - ✔✔ANS (B) Nightstick At the scene of an accident you determine that one of the drivers was going 1-5 mph over the speed limit and had been drinking. You administer a PBT and see the driver has a BAC of .06%. You do not have enough to charge for OWI. You should take which of the following courses of action? (A) Write a speeding ticket (B) Write a careless driving ticket (C) Write and arrest for Reckless Driving - ✔✔ANS (A) Write a speeding ticket While on patrol you observe a vehicle parked in a body shop matching the description of a vehicle involved in a recent felony. You note that there is heavy front end damage. You want to investigate further so you should do which of the following? (A) Enter the body shop during business hours and look closely at the vehicle while the shop is open to the public. (B) Call the owner of the shop and request permission to enter the shop to look at the vehicle. (C) Leave your partner behind to guar - ✔✔ANS (C) Leave your partner behind to guard the vehicle and seek a search warrant.
You arrive as a first responder to a car accident involving a hazardous vehicle. Ambulance has transported injured individuals. One person has died and a crowd forms around the scene. Traffic is backed up for miles. After positioning your vehicle, how do you proceed? - ✔✔ANS Control the crowd at the scene, prevent further contamination You are assigned to observe a protest. Several protesters surround a van, shake the van rapidly, and drag the driver out of the vehicle. One of the protesters is using a crowbar. You command the violent protesters to stop, but they don't comply. Which weapon of choice should you use to respond to this scene?
- ✔✔ANS Nightstick. Other answers will be a shotgun or a handgun. None of those are correct. If you see nightstick — that's your answer. You respond to a car accident. One driver was driving 5-10 miles over the speed limit and had a BAC of .06. You do not have enough to charge for OWI — therefore you should: - ✔✔ANS Issue a speeding ticket You are an officer on beach patrol. A heat stroke victim is lying unconscious. Your best response is to: - ✔✔ANS Pull the victim in the shade You and your partner are transporting a prisoner in your police vehicle. There's no cage. How do you you position the prisoner? - ✔✔ANS Officer #1 in the driver's seat, prisoner in the front passenger seat, and officer #2 behind officer #1 on the driver's side.
You are in a rural area. A pregnant woman is in labor and her water just broke. You respond by attempting to deliver the baby. The baby is coming out feet first. What do you do next? - ✔✔ANS Put the Mother in your car and drive her to the hospital. While eating lunch, your partner begins gasping and coughing, possibly choking. What should your next response be? - ✔✔ANS Monitor and see what happens. Your partner is still breathing at this moment - not choking. You stop a motorcycle and realize he has no motorcycle endorsement. The appropriate course of action is? - ✔✔ANS Arrest the cyclist for a misdemeanor. After interviewing a possible CSC suspect, you find out he is the victim's former husband. What do you do? - ✔✔ANS Treat the case as any other CSC While on patrol you observe a vehicle parked in a body shop that matches the description of a vehicle involved in a recent felony. You observe there is heavy front end damage. You want to investigate further so you should - ✔✔ANS Leave your partner behind to guard the vehicle and seek a search warrant. You are investigating the theft of a jacket. You learn that the suspect has the jacket at his friend's house from whom he rents a room. You go to the house and explain the situation. You should do what next? - ✔✔ANS Get consent to enter and obtain search warrant for room.
Refusal to be fingerprinted is a: - ✔✔ANS 90 day Misdemeanor True or False. A person guilty of a misdemeanor must be fingerprinted within 48 hours - ✔✔ANS False. Must be fingerprinted within 72 hours When placing a tourniquet on a wounded person, you should place the tourniquet: (A) High and tight above the wound (B) Below the wound (C) On top of the wound - ✔✔ANS (A) High and tight above the wound You and your partner are under fire. What is the most appropriate course of action? - ✔✔ANS Return fire and drag partner to cover You are taking fire while sitting inside your patrol vehicle. You should take cover in which manner: (A) Behind the bumper of your vehicle (B) Behind the engine block (dashboard) (C) Behind the door of your patrol vehicle - ✔✔ANS (B) Behind the engine block (dashboard) The best areas of cover on your patrol vehicle when taking fire are which of the following? (A) Engine Block, Tire rims, Bumper of patrol vehicle
or "WHICH IS THE BEST ORDER OF THE FOLLOWING" and it will list them. Be sure to study the MCOLES objectives thoroughly for this section and memorize the correct order. What is the BEST way to treat a pneumothorax victim - ✔✔ANS Cover the top of the wound with an air-tight seal (Cellophane) so no air gets in You have an arrest warrant for a suspect. You go to his home and discover no one is there. You receive a tip that he is staying at a friend's house. You got there to arrest him but the friend refuses to let you in. What can you lawfully do? Which of the following is the best answer? (A) You can enter the friend's home on the arrest warrant because it's valid anywhere in the state (B) You need a search warrant (C) You may enter on the tip you received. - ✔✔ANS (B) You need a search warrant While you observe a subject he advised you that he has information on someone who robbed a store in your jurisdiction the prior evening. Can you use him as an informant? Which answer is correct? (A) No, he cannot establish credibility (Answer if confidential informant) (B) No, he made the statement after an arrest
(C) Yes, being a criminal does not stop him from being a witness. - ✔✔ANS (C) Yes, being a criminal does not stop him from being a witness. On the way to serving an arrest warrant, you realize the warrant has an error on it. What should you do? - ✔✔ANS Return the warrant and have it corrected. Before submitting a request for an arrest warrant to the prosecutor, you should do which of the following: (A) Make sure the information is clear, concise, and accurate (B) Review the information with a judge or magistrate (C) Have someone from prosecutors officer go over the request with you to make sure the information is clear, concise, and accurate - ✔✔ANS (A) Make sure the information is clear, concise, and accurate While interviewing a child, you notice cigarette burns on his arm. Your first course of action should be to do which of the following: (A) Contact CPS (B) Contact the parents (C) Contact the juvenile courts - ✔✔ANS (A) Contact CPS You are sent to the local hospital regarding a possible sexual assault. At the scene you make contact with a doctor who states while performing a medical exam of a 12 year old girl, he discovered she has syphilis (STD). Your first response should be to do which of the following:
refuses. What should you do? - ✔✔ANS Arrest the driver. You have Probable Cause to arrest. You respond to a landlord-tenant dispute. The landlord is moving the tenant's belongings out. What is the most appropriate response? - ✔✔ANS This is a civil matter. You are not a master of determining court documents. Do not try to. The state test may word this question differently. If you have the option of "notifying the persons involved of what their legal avenues are, and to give the contact information of the prosecutor", choose that answer. You respond to a landlord-tenant dispute. The landlord wants to press charges against the tenant for holes punched in the walls. How do you respond? - ✔✔ANS This is a civil matter. The state test may word this question differently. If you have the option of "notifying the persons involved of what their legal avenues are, and to give the contact information of the prosecutor", choose that answer. You are working the front desk and a caller makes a bomb threat to blow up the building. Your first action should be: - ✔✔ANS Keep the caller on the line and obtain as much information as possible. You stop a vehicle and upon approach, you notice the driver has a loaded pistol on the passenger seat. You learn that the driver does not have a valid CPL. What is the charge? - ✔✔ANS CCW
Your arrest a driver for OWI and initiate two chemical tests. One result reads 0.35, and the other reads 0.40. What do you do next? - ✔✔ANS Take to hospital On a domestic run, you observe a man cleaning a shotgun. What is the crime? - ✔✔ANS No crime. If hemophiliac refuses a blood test, what other alternatives can be taken? - ✔✔ANS Search warrant or court order (if answer is available). If the question says they have a condition that prevents them from getting blood, and if there is no option to get a court order, have them take a urine test. When a person is in the hospital for OWI, how can you legally obtain a blood test if the person refuses? - ✔✔ANS Search warrant You suspect a driver of OWI after he weaves back and forth across the road. You pull over the driver and when he rolls down his window, you smell an odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle. What do you do next? - ✔✔ANS Arrest for OWI (The smell of marijuana coming from a vehicle constitutes Probable Cause and a good arrest) You see a person speed through a red light. You make a U-turn and follow the vehicle. How do you proceed? (A) Wait for the light to turn green and chase the vehicle (B) Cautiously and slowly proceed through the red light, then pursue the vehicle
(B) How radars determine speed by the travel of sound frequency (C) The phenomenon of knowing less about something than one actually does - ✔✔ANS (A) Rotation and curvature of the earth Which scientific method do radars use to calculate the distance to an object? (A) The Coriolis Effect (B) The Doppler Effect (C) The Kruger Effect - ✔✔ANS (B) The Doppler Effect Rifling is the: (A) Spiral pattern of lands and grooves in the barrel of a firearm. Used for accuracy not for cleaning. (B) Proper and safe handling of the rifle (C) Proper and safe operation of the rifle - ✔✔ANS (A) Spiral pattern of lands and grooves in the barrel of a firearm. Used for accuracy not for cleaning. You're on patrol and you pull a vehicle over on a highway. You have no backup vehicles coming. What is the proper way to position your vehicle? (A) Behind and offset to the left on an angle
(B) Behind and offset to the right on an angle (C) Behind the vehicle and centered - ✔✔ANS (A) Behind and offset to the left on an angle The primary unit of a high risk traffic stop should position their vehicle: (A) Behind and offset to the left (B) Behind and offset to the right (C) Behind and offset to the left on an angle - ✔✔ANS (B) Behind and offset to the right The backup unit of a high risk stop should position their vehicle in which manner: (A) Behind and offset to the left (B) Behind and offset to the right (C) Behind and offset to the left on an angle - ✔✔ANS (A) Behind and offset to the left For a sexual assault victim, it is best to ask:
(C) Immobilize the leg - ✔✔ANS (C) Immobilize the leg A dog begins attacking your partner while on scene. What do you do? - ✔✔ANS Shoot the dog For a stroke victim, you should focus on: - ✔✔ANS Maintaining an open airway Graham v. Connor can be summarized as which of the following? (A) Objective Reasonableness when using Deadly Force (B) Unwarranted Searches (C) Terry Pat Down - ✔✔ANS (A) OBJECTIVE REASONABLENESS when using Deadly Force Miranda v. Arizona - ✔✔ANS Suspect MUST BE INFORMED OF THEIR RIGHTS to consult with an attorney and of their right against self- incrimination prior to questioning by police (5th Amendment). Tennessee v. Gardner - ✔✔ANS CAN'T SHOOT A FLEEING FELON Maryland v. Wilson - ✔✔ANS Officers may ORDER PASSENGERS TO EXIT VEHICLE even if there is no evidence that the passenger is involved in any wrongdoing
Terry v. Ohio - ✔✔ANS STOP AND FRISK with articulated reasonable suspicion of weapons. Reasonable suspicion exists that crime is afoot, a crime has occurred, or is occurring. Pennsylvania v. Mimms - ✔✔ANS Police can legally ORDER A PERSON TO EXIT THEIR VEHICLE. This was issued after the respondent was lawfully detained, was reasonable, and thus permissible under the Fourth Amendment. Maybury v. Madison - ✔✔ANS A case under the Marshall court that implemented the rule of judicial review. It was a landmark case in saying that the court has the final say on constitutionality. Canton v. Harris - ✔✔ANS The FAILURE TO TRAIN must reflect a deliberate or conscious choice by the municipality.
- The NEED TO TRAIN officers in the constitutional limitations on the use of deadly force can be said so obvious, that failure to do so could properly be characterized as "deliberate indifference" to constitutional rights.
- LACK OF TRAINING is reason for suit Arizona v. Gant - ✔✔ANS SEARCH INCIDENT TO ARREST if: The arrestee might access the vehicle @ the time of search, or the vehicle contains evidence of the offense he was arrested for. South Dakota v. Opperman - ✔✔ANS An INVENTORY SEARCH, following standard police procedures, of an impounded vehicle is not an unreasonable search so long as it is not done as a pretext concealing an investigatory police motive to locate evidence or other unlawful seizure.
