POLICE SERGEANT PRACTICE EXAM (2025/2026
EDITION) – FULL TEST PREP & VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWER GRADEA A+
Activities performed by officers on patrol that are directed toward keeping violations of the
law from happening are most widely known as
crime prevention.
These police tactics involve the use of physical force, threat of force, and mental or
psychological abuse.
Third degree tactics.
This type of evidence would clear a suspect from blame.
Exculpatory evidence.
A the scene of a homicide, what is the medical examiner or coroner normally responsible
for?
Securing the body of the deceased, as well as all associated clothing and personal
property.
You are required to administer a sobriety test to a motorist to determine if the motorist is
intoxicated. During the test, the motorist experiences difficulty maintaining equilibrium.
This is known as
the Romberg sign.
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In order to allow for accurate and complete reconstruction of an accident scene, it is
important for an officer to measure skid marks to
the nearest inch.
Foot patrol by police officers is most effective in combating
robberies and street muggings.
An object, measure, or model with which evidence is compared to determine whether both
came from the same source.
Standard of comparison.
The chemical development of latent fingerprints using super glue is scientifically known as
cyanocralyde.
You are a sergeant who has arrived at the scene of what your patrol officers originally
thought was a robbery-in-progress call. You see three patrol cars on the scene. The lead
officer tells you that the suspects fled over an hour ago. What should you have the other
officers do?
Report back to service.
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For police officers, the importance of understanding human relations can never be
overstated. Knowing what binds people together is paramount to understanding human
relations. What binds people together the most is their
culture.
The police are considered to be the street interpreters of the law through the use of
their discretion.
It has been stated that people entering the criminal justice profession need to posses a
very special communication quality. Unlike the development of voice or listening skills, this
concept has a rather vague nature. Experts also maintain that those entering police-
oriented professions need to have large amounts of this. The statement just made most
nearly makes reference to
the capacity for human empathy.
The most extreme form of unexpressed inward aggression is
suicide.
generally, the rules that regulate our use of personal space are implied. For example,
business interactions call for different amount of distance than do interactions between
close friends. Experts identify four basic personal space zones: Intimate distance, personal
distance, social distance, and public distance. Which calls for a distance of one and one-
half feet from the body?
Personal distance.
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