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MPOETC ACT 120 Certification Exam Review Containing Questions with Complete Solutions 2024-2025. Terms like: Situation where two people agree to commit a crime and are caught later? - Answer: conspiracy When applying a tourniquet to someone, where should you write the time on their body at which it was applied? - Answer: forehead
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Situation where two people agree to commit a crime and are caught later? - Answer: conspiracy When applying a tourniquet to someone, where should you write the time on their body at which it was applied? - Answer: forehead What color does a police officer work in? (Traffic Light Analogy) - Answer: yellow What is the normal speed limit for an urban area? - Answer: 35 mph
What should you NOT do when someone robs a Police Officer? - Answer: use lethal force What federal agency should you notify if you come into contact with a clandestine lab? - Answer: DEA What is the status of an AR Rifle when the bolt is closed, the chamber is empty, and the magazine is seated in the magazine well? - Answer: cruiser ready What is the status of a Shot Gun that has a filled magazine tube, a forward slide, and an activated chamber safety switch? - Answer: cruiser ready What is the constitutional right to free speech, religion, and press? - Answer: 1st amendment What is the constitutional right to a person's secured house, paper, and effects? - Answer: 4th amendment What is the constitutional right against self-incrimination, due process, compensation for public taking of property, and double-jeopardy? This right established "Miranda Warnings" in the case of Miranda v. Arizona. - Answer: 5th amendment What is the constitutional right to speedy trial, to counsel, and to be confronted by witnesses and/or accusers? - Answer: 6th amendment
In addition to aggravated assault, what other 18 Pa.C.S. statute would be charged against a woman who attempted to stab a man and missed? - Answer: criminal attempt What should be filed when a juvenile strikes a teacher? - Answer: juvenile petition CORRECT OR INCORRECT? A motorcycle should pull up to a solid white line, wait 3 seconds, and look both ways before proceeding? - Answer: incorrect What does a diamond hazard symbol indicate? - Answer: flammable CORRECT OR INCORRECT? A Police Officer should interview a child with the parents included when there is a domestic situation at large? - Answer: incorrect What should a shot Police Officer or fellow officer do when there is an active shooter at large? - Answer: eliminate threat What 18 Pa.C.S. statute should be charged against a man who robs a bank, but is then locked between the doors? - Answer: robbery When responding to a domestic situation at large, where should a Police Officer NOT park his/her patrol vehicle? - Answer: directly in front of home How far offset to the left should a patrol vehicle be positioned on a traffic stop? - Answer: 3 feet
Why should a Police Officer advise a father to contact an attorney if a mother fails to permit father to see child during the weekend? - Answer: civil matter What 18 Pa.C.S. statute should be charged against an elder man who offered to transport a child someplace? - Answer: no violation committed When "302-ing" someone, where should a Police Officer take them first? - Answer: mental hospital What 75 Pa.C.S. statute should be charged against someone who turned right on a steady red light? (Obedience to Traffic Devices) - Answer: statute 3111 What U.S. Supreme Court case ruled that an Officer's reasonable perspective of a scene will be judged rather than 20/20 hindsight of others? - Answer: graham v. connor What term applies to any evidence found through illegal conduct that is suppressed, regardless of the relationship between the act and the seizure? - Answer: fruit of the poisonous tree What U.S. Supreme Court case ruled on the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule? - Answer: nix v. williams What is the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule? - Answer: us v. leon
A person knocks another individual to the ground and steals their purse with only $1.00 in it. What criminal status is this offense considered? - Answer: robbery A restaurant offers a gratuity to a Police Officer and foots the bill on the house. What should the officer do? - Answer: leave payment on table A bunch of Police Officers rough someone up after they are apprehended and no longer a threat. Their force is NOT justifiable. What must you, as a Police Officer, consider when you hand in your report? - Answer: moral righteousness If you, as a Police Officer, testify in court, and you are told that your testimony conflicts with your partner's, what should you say on the stand? - Answer: no comment on partner testimony What is needed between the police and community for policing to work? - Answer: trust As a Police Officer, you see a former convicted robber in possession of a sports bag and brief case. Can you seize his/her possessions? - Answer: fruit of the poisonous tree What is concept of a Police Officer paying attention to trivial things in a person, but influence the interpretation and perception of other trivial things later in time? - Answer: hallow effect
Who should a Police Officer be concerned about attacking himself/herself while responding to a domestic situation at large? - Answer: everyone How should a Police Officer position someone (while standing up against wall) when conducting a terry frisk or a search incident to arrest? - Answer: legs 4- feet apart What level of drugs have non-medical use? - Answer: schedule 1 What type of arrest usually starts a court case? - Answer: warrantless arrest A Police Officer is conducting a field interview when they notice someone approach with a gun. For their safety, what type of encounter would they use to temporarily secure the scene? - Answer: terry stop What type of testimony ties a defendant directly to a crime? - Answer: direct testimony What type of evidence speaks for itself? - Answer: physical evidence What is not required for a prosecutor to present a piece of physical evidence in court? - Answer: testimony
In order for a person to be subjected to police custody or involuntary commitment, what must a Police Officer first show? - Answer: danger to self or others When should a Police Officer "Mirandize" someone? - Answer: custody and interrogation When should a Police Officer obtain a search warrant? - Answer: always What must be present for a rape charge to be made? - Answer: penetration What should a Police Officer do when tending to a large crowd? - Answer: walk along outside What 18 Pa.C.S. statute would shady activity in a business be an example of? - Answer: forgery What type of crash applies to a girl who spilled her soda and inevitably injured herself behind the wheel without hitting anyone or anything? - Answer: reportable non collision What type of crash applies to a car accident where a car is towed and a death is involved? - Answer: reportable non collision
How should a Police Officer arrest an individual while in an open field? - Answer: laying down with palms up When commencing a closing argument, when does the prosecutor speak? - Answer: start and end What term applies to the number of jurors called upon? - Answer: vio dier As a Police Officer, you are called to a bar fight in progress where 2 men are fist fighting. Police Officers do not wait for back up. What do they not use? - Answer: deadly force When a Police Officer takes a juvenile back to their police station, what is the proper protocol for processing the child? - Answer: constant supervision A defense attorney approaches you, as a Police Officer, before a criminal trial. They wish to speak to you about the case. You should politely decline to speak or take what action for legal consultation? - Answer: find district attorney How should a Police Officer take a suspect to the ground when they are pursuing them from behind? - Answer: push them What should you do if emergency responders are passing you on the road? - Answer: pass in non adjacent lane
If there are 2 suspects in the front seats of a vehicle, how do you remove them from the vehicle? - Answer: exit corresponding doors As a Police Officer, you receive information about a robbery just committed, and a good description of the actor. As you receive this information, a bystander positively matches the actor in the robbery. What action should you take? - Answer: stop on reasonable suspicion What is the best way for a Police Officer to prepare for court? - Answer: field notes What should a Police Officer do if they write in the wrong address of someone in their field notes? - Answer: cross out and initial What term is defined as "impairment of physical condition or substantial pain?" - Answer: bodily injury What term is defined as "a driver who drives a vehicle in a willful or wanton disregard for the safety of others?" - Answer: reckless driving What term is defined as "an instrument used with the intent to use criminally?" - Answer: instrument of crime Which wrist should a Police Officer handcuff first when arresting someone? - Answer: right wrist
What term is defined as "bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death of which causes serious permanent disfigurement or impairment?" - Answer: serious bodily injury What Pennsylvania State Supreme Court case determined that a nervous suspect does not equal reasonable suspicion? - Answer: commonwealth v. grey What type of warrant must include time, date, description of property seized, and the description of person or place being seized? - Answer: search warrant What would be a situation where a Police Officer tells a person they are not free to leave, but at the same time, they are not in official Police custody? - Answer: investigatory detention What is an instance where a Police Officer stops to speak with someone spontaneously? - Answer: mere encounter What term is defined as "items that are in and of themselves illegal to own or possess?" - Answer: contraband What is the proper way for a Police Officer to handle a weapon or gun that they found on the scene? - Answer: release to cover officer
Striking fear into a group is required for what? - Answer: act of terrorism Who is the officer responsible for a crash investigation? - Answer: first responding officer If someone is DUI, they drive off the street, hit a tree, get arrested, and abandon their car, what type of crash is it? - Answer: non reportable If a person drives their vehicle into a flood, gets it stuck, and requires it to be towed, what type of crash is it? - Answer: non reportable If a person is driving and their car catches fire in the travel lane, what type of crash is it? - Answer: reportable What is the type of indirect evidence that links all evidence together? - Answer: circumstantial evidence What action is allowed when a stimuli is based on probable cause? - Answer: custodial detention Reasonable suspicion, a crime that occurred, or a person with a weapon are three justifications to perform a? - Answer: terry frisk
When a felony was committed in view, or there is probable cause that a felony was committed, an officer has the authority to perform a? - Answer: warrantless arrest Totality of circumstances and the "reasonable person" test can determine? - Answer: legality of arrest Exigent circumstances, plain view, cars, smell, and feel are exceptions to? - Answer: search warrant What is sufficient to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebutted? - Answer: prima facie What is granted from making an arrest on probable cause? - Answer: search incident to arrest What is the court review of all factors known to the officer at the time of the incident? - Answer: totality of circumstances What U.S. Supreme Court case made weapons reasonable suspicion, and that an officer can frisk for them only? - Answer: terry vs ohio
