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When is the best time to search your patrol vehicle for weapons or contraband? - Answer The beginning of your shift and when non-personell have been in your vehicle You can arrest for the following offenses: - Answer 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 - Answer (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 address and wait in patrol car to see if there are signs of movement - Answer (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 - Answer (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) Radio for backup, then chase the suspect (B) Interview the suspect and see if it warrants backup
(A) Write a speeding ticket (B) Write a careless driving ticket (C) Write and arrest for Reckless Driving - Answer (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 guard the vehicle and seek a search warrant. - Answer (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? - Answer 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? - Answer
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: - Answer Issue a speeding ticket You are an officer on beach patrol. A heat stroke victim is lying unconscious. Your best response is to: - Answer 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? - Answer 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 asked to transport a prisoner to the court next door to the lockup. Which is the most appropriate manner to do so out of the options given below? (A) Transport the prisoner by foot (B) Transport the prisoner in your police vehicle (C) Transport the prisoner using EMS van - Answer (B) Transport the prisoner in your police vehicle Local weather conditions cause a power outage at the jail where you work. As a result food and linen shipments have been delayed and prisoners have not eaten in 12 hours. Is this legal? (A) Yes, if department procedures were followed (B) No, procedural rights were violated
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 - Answer 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? - Answer Get consent to enter and obtain search warrant for room. Refusal to be fingerprinted is a: - Answer 90 day Misdemeanor True or False. A person guilty of a misdemeanor must be fingerprinted within 48 hours - Answer 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 - Answer (A) High and tight above the wound You and your partner are under fire. What is the most appropriate course of action?
- Answer 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 - Answer (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 (B) Behind the doors of your patrol vehicle, near the A or B pillars of the vehicle, and your dashboard (C) Backseat of your patrol vehicle and behind assailant's vehicle bumper - Answer (A) Engine Block, Tire rims, Bumper of patrol vehicle A person has glass stuck in their eye. How do you treat the victim? (A) Blindfold only the injured eye (B) Blindfold both eyes (C) Apply dorect pressure - Answer (B) Blindfold both eyes Blindfolding both eyes helps to keep the victim's eyes from moving, preventing further injury. 5 Fundamentals of Marksmanship - Answer (1) Stance (2) Grip (3) Trigger Control
(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. - Answer (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? - Answer 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 - Answer (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 - Answer (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: (A) Remove her from home and place in protective custody (B) Investigate for possible CSC case (C) Do nothing, as syphilis is a medical condition - Answer (B) Investigate for possible CSC case You arrive at the scene of an accident. Both cars are off the roadway, it is raining, and there are light skid marks on the road surface. What is the first thing you should do? (A) Measure skid marks from beginning to end (B) Determine resting position of both vehicles (C) Look for gauge marks in the roadway - Answer (A) Measure skid marks from beginning to end You respond to a domestic violence complaint and observe the wife's eye is black and blue. She tells you that nothing happened. The 6 year old son states "Daddy hit mommy". What do you do? - Answer Arrest the husband You respond to a domestic violence complaint. You find the house to be in disarray with furniture thrown around. Both the husband and wife's clothes are disheveled. Nor the husband or wife appear to be injured. Both parties tell you that nothing happened. What do you do? - Answer Investigate further You observe a driver driving erratically and swerving in the lane of travel. You stop the vehicle. As you approach the vehicle you notice the driver has glassy and bloodshot eyes, and his speech is slurred. He states that he only had two beers. You ask him to exit the vehicle and perform standard field sobriety tests, but he refuses.
On a domestic run, you observe a man cleaning a shotgun. What is the crime? - Answer No crime. If hemophiliac refuses a blood test, what other alternatives can be taken? - Answer 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? - Answer 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? - Answer 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 (C) Let the vehicle go as it is only a civil infraction - Answer (B) Cautiously and slowly proceed through the red light, then pursue the vehicle NOTE* There could be another question on the state test that may include information that there is "heavy traffic". If there is heavy traffic, and the answer is (C) — "Let them go". If the question doesn't say there's heavy traffic, then you will
cautiously and slowly proceed through the red light, then pursue the vehicle. This question will definitely be on the state test. Most of our class answered the same for this. During a Felony stop, who has control over the suspect vehicle? (A) Primary Vehicle (B) Secondary Vehicle (C) Backup Unit - Answer (A) Primary Vehicle 3 classifications of firearms ballistics are: (A) Potential, Kinetic, Forensic (B) Mechanical, DNA, Velocity (C) Internal, Externamal, Terminal - Answer (C) Internal, External, Terminal The Coreolis Effect is the direct result of one of the following: (A) Rotation and curvature of the earth (B) How radars determine speed by the travel of sound frequency (C) The phenomenon of knowing less about something than one actually does - Answer (A) Rotation and curvature of the earth Which scientific method do radars use to calculate the distance to an object?
(A) Behind and offset to the left (B) Behind and offset to the right (C) Behind and offset to the left on an angle - Answer (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 - Answer (A) Behind and offset to the left For a sexual assault victim, it is best to ask: (A) Direct questions (B) Indirect Questions (C) Open ended questions - Answer (C) Open ended questions During an arrest, you observe white pills nearby. You should: - Answer Confiscate and send to lab for further analysis What are the steps to interviewing a suspect? - Answer Establish rapport, listen, and take notes
How do you conduct an interrogation of a suspect? - Answer Use interrogation techniques, controls dialogue, and challenges denials A person loses their finger. What is the best way to preserve the finger? - Answer Wrap the finger and keep it cool. DO NOT PLACE IN WATER, DO NOT PUT THE FINGER ON ICE, AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REATTACH. THESE WILL BE THE OTHER OPTIONS. THEY ARE NOT CORRECT!!! For a heat exhaustion victim, you should treat them best by: - Answer Keeping them cool A person is impaled by a pipe through the leg. What is the best action to take? (A) Attempt to remove the pipe (B) Poor water over the leg to clean the wound (C) Immobilize the leg - Answer (C) Immobilize the leg A dog begins attacking your partner while on scene. What do you do? - Answer Shoot the dog For a stroke victim, you should focus on: - Answer Maintaining an open airway Graham v. Connor can be summarized as which of the following?
Maybury v. Madison - Answer 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 - Answer 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 - Answer 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 - Answer 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. When processing DNA evidence, you should place the evidence in what kind of packaging? (A) Breathable Paper Bag (B) Glass Container (C) Plastic Bag - Answer (A) Breathable Paper Bag A gun or a bloody knife should be placed in what kind of packaging for evidence processing?
(A) Plastic Bag (B) Cardboard Box or Styrofoam Container (C) Glass Container - Answer (B) Cardboard Box or Styrofoam Container Soil samples should be processed using what kind of packaging? (A) Glass or Plastic Container (B) Cardboard or Styrofoam Container (C) Breathable Paper Bag - Answer (A) Glass or Plastic Container With a wet shirt covered in fresh blood, before processing, you should always take what course of action first? (A) Package the shirt in a plastic bag as soon as possible to preserve evidentiary value of blood. (B) Place the shirt in between two strips of cardboard to keep the shirt dry. (C) Air-dry the shirt before packaging. - Answer (C) Air-dry the shirt before packaging People v. Shankle - Answer OFFICER ASKED DRIVER OUT OF VEHICLE AND ASKED FOR ID. VOLUNTARY. Evidence was deemed admissible.
