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Patrolling and Investigating MCQ

Patrolling and Investigating MCQ

 

1. _____ is enforce the law, perform welfare tasks, prevent crime, and protect the innocent.

Answer

Correct Answer: Tasks Of Policing (Four Basic)

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2. Is stress discomfort and distress caused by situations that officers face on the job?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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3. _____ is known as in policing, the notion that an officer can “sense” or feel when something is not right, as in the way a person acts, talks, and so on.

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Correct Answer: Sixth Sense

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4. _____ is defined as james Q. Wilson argued that there are three styles of policing: watchman, legalistic, and service.

Answer

Correct Answer: Policing Styles

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5. _____ is the function of the police in contemporary society.

Answer

Correct Answer: Policing Role

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6. Is locard’s Exchange Principle the notion that offenders both leave something at the crime scene and take something from it; the crime scene analyst or investigator’s job is to locate that evidence and use it in the investigation?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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7. _____ is known as in the early 1970s, a study of the effects of different types of patrolling on crime—patrolling as usual in one area, saturated patrol in another, and very limited patrol in a third area; the results showed no significant differences.

Answer

Correct Answer: Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment

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8. _____ is defined as in criminal law, the process whereby police question a person who is suspected of having knowledge of or having committed a crime; it typically involves informing the suspect of his or her rights under Miranda

Answer

Correct Answer: Interrogation

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9. _____ is a person who covertly provides information about criminal activity to police, with some expectation of benefit in exchange—money, dropped or reduced charges, and so on. However, because such persons are often criminals themselves, their credibility and use are often questioned.

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Correct Answer: Informant

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10. Is higher Education (For Police) education beyond high school, at a college or university, in particular?

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Correct Answer: True

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11. _____ is known as the study of causes of crimes, deaths, and crime scenes.

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Correct Answer: Forensic Science

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12. _____ is defined as one who is to oversee and evaluate the new police officer’s performance as he or she transitions from the training academy to patrolling the streets.

Answer

Correct Answer: Field Training Officer (FTO)

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13. _____ is an approach and tactical decisionmaking process that emphasizes statistical analysis, empirical research, and controlled field experiments.

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Correct Answer: Evidence-Based Policing

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14. Is dNA deoxyribonucleic acid, which is found in all cells; used in forensics to match evidence (hair etc) left at a crime scene with a particular perpetrator?

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Correct Answer: True

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15. _____ is known as a police officer who is assigned to investigate reported crimes, to include gathering evidence, completing case reports, testifying in court, and so on.

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Correct Answer: Detective/Criminal Investigator

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16. _____ is defined as the interdisciplinary study of physical evidence related to crime; drawing on mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, anthropology, and many other scientific fields.

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Correct Answer: Criminalistics

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17. _____ is any location where a crime occurred and that may contain forensic evidence relating to and supporting a criminal investigation.

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Correct Answer: Crime Scene

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18. Is community Policing And Problem Solving a proactive management philosophy that involves police-community collaboration and a four-step process (scanning, analyzing, response, and assessment) to focus police activities and thus enable officers to respond more effectively to crime and disorder with arrests or other appropriate actions ?

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Correct Answer: True

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19. _____ is known as no standard time-related definition of a “cold case” exists regarding when an investigation goes “cold”; rather, it is generally the point when all viable leads in an investigation have been exhausted and detectives cease their investigative efforts—to be reopened if further information or evidence becomes available.

Answer

Correct Answer: Cold Case

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20. _____ is defined as the percentage of crimes that either resulted in an arrest or were cleared by some other means.

Answer

Correct Answer: Clearance Rate

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21. _____ is where police and corrections personnel are trained in the basic functions, laws, and skills required for their positions

Answer

Correct Answer: Academy Training

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22. ______ law is found in the day-to-day practices of police officers.

Answer

Correct Answer: Reality

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23. At which stage of investigation does an investigator use inductive reasoning to create a rational theory of the crime?

Answer

Correct Answer: Reconstructing the crime

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24. Jerome Skolnick and David Bayley point out that the crimes that terrify Americans the most are rarely encountered by police on patrol.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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25. Which of the following is TRUE of DNA evidence?

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Correct Answer: It is considered the most sophisticated and reliable type of physical evidence.

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26. Which of the following would be categorized as an administrative stressor for police officers?

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Correct Answer: Feeling powerless about decisions that directly affect their jobs

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27. Which of the following is one of the first tasks responding personnel are trained to carry out upon arriving at a crime scene?

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Correct Answer: Describe vehicles

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28. Upon arriving to the scene of an automobile accident, a police officer begins to ask those involved for their names and insurance cards. Which type of questioning is the officer engaged in?

Answer

Correct Answer: Interviewing

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29. Problem-oriented policing reflects which of the following strategies?

Answer

Correct Answer: Identifying the underlying causes of recurring incidents of crime and disorder

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30. In the service style of policing, the police officer is viewed as a solider.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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31. Which officer would have the most discretionary authority?

Answer

Correct Answer: An officer with a relatively low rank

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32. When an officer develops an ability to visually recognize when something is wrong, he or she is said to have developed what ability?

Answer

Correct Answer: Sixth sense suspicion

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33. Several dairy cows escaped their pasture in a rural area and have been found wandering on several local roads. An animal control unit who is working to trap the cows asks the local police department to assist. Which category of basic policing tasks would this be considered?

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Correct Answer: Performing welfare tasks

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34. Criminalistics is a science that focuses on ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Studying physical evidence related to crime

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35. Which of the following would likely be a high-priority cold case?

Answer

Correct Answer: A case with significant physical evidence that can be reprocessed

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36. How does the field training officer program help new police officers?

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Correct Answer: It allows new officers to slowly acclimate to the job under the supervision of a more experienced officer.

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