POLICE ACADEMY LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Change of Venue - ✔✔The removal of a suit begun in one county or district to
another for trial or from one court to another in the same county or district
✔✔Commutation - ✔✔The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser
degree, as from death to life in imprisonment
✔✔Condemnation - ✔✔process by which real estate of a private owner is taken for
public use without his/her consent, but upon the award and payment of just
compensation
✔✔Corroborating Evidence - ✔✔Evidence supplementary to that already given and
tending to strengthen or confirm it
✔✔Crime - ✔✔A public offense or wrong that is forbidden by law
✔✔Cross Examination - ✔✔The questioning of witnesses in a trial or in taking of a
disposition by the party opposed to the one who produced the witness
✔✔Dactyloscopy - ✔✔The practical application of the scientific study of fingerprints as a
means of identification. The ID is made by fingerprints comparisons and the
classification of prints
✔✔Decree - ✔✔A decision or order of the court
✔✔Default - ✔✔an action of law occurs when a defendant fails to plead within the time
allowed or fails to appear at the trial
✔✔Demur - ✔✔To file a pleading admitting the truth of the facts in the complaint or
answer, but contending they are legally insufficient
✔✔Deposition - ✔✔The testimony of a witness not taken in open court, but in
pursuance of authority given by statute or rule of court to take testimony else where
✔✔Directed Verdict - ✔✔An instruction by the judge to the jury to return a specific
verdict
✔✔Discovery - ✔✔A proceeding where by one party to an action may be informed as to
facts known by other parties or witnesses
✔✔Dissent - ✔✔A term commonly used to denote the disagreement of one or more
judges of a court with the decision of the majority
, ✔✔Domicile - ✔✔That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. A
person may have several residences, but only one domicile
✔✔Double Jeopardy - ✔✔Common law and constitutional prohibition against more than
on prosecution of the same crime, transaction, or omission
✔✔Due Process - ✔✔Law in its regular course of administrative through the courts of
justice. The guarantee of due process requires that every person have the protection of
fair trial
✔✔Embezzlement - ✔✔The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or
benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
✔✔Equitable Action - ✔✔An action which may be brought for the purpose of restraining
the threatened infliction of wrongs or personal injuries and the prevention of threatened
illegal action
✔✔Expert Evidence - ✔✔Testimony given in relation to some scientific, technical, or
professional matter by experts
✔✔Expunge - ✔✔The act of physically destroying files, records, or information
✔✔Extenuating Circumstances - ✔✔Circumstances which render a crime less
aggravated, heinous, or reprehensible than it would otherwise be
✔✔Extortion, Theft By - ✔✔Unlawfully obtaining property from another by threat. The
threat, regardless of its nature must induce and "oppressive condition of circumstances"
✔✔Extradition - ✔✔The surrender b on state to another of an individual accused or
convicted of an offense outside its own territory and within the territorial jurisdiction of
the other
✔✔Fair Preponderance - ✔✔Evidence sufficient to convince the triers of fact that the
party who has the burden of doing so has established its case
✔✔False Arrest - ✔✔Any unlawful physical restraints of another's liberty, whether in
prison or in custody
✔✔Feigned Accomplice - ✔✔One who, under the direction of law enforcement officer or
upon his/her own initiative, pretends complicity in a crime in order to detect the
perpetrator in an effort to prosecute such perpetrator. As much, there is no criminal
intent on the part of a feigned accomplice, nor does his/her activity constitute
entrapment
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Change of Venue - ✔✔The removal of a suit begun in one county or district to
another for trial or from one court to another in the same county or district
✔✔Commutation - ✔✔The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser
degree, as from death to life in imprisonment
✔✔Condemnation - ✔✔process by which real estate of a private owner is taken for
public use without his/her consent, but upon the award and payment of just
compensation
✔✔Corroborating Evidence - ✔✔Evidence supplementary to that already given and
tending to strengthen or confirm it
✔✔Crime - ✔✔A public offense or wrong that is forbidden by law
✔✔Cross Examination - ✔✔The questioning of witnesses in a trial or in taking of a
disposition by the party opposed to the one who produced the witness
✔✔Dactyloscopy - ✔✔The practical application of the scientific study of fingerprints as a
means of identification. The ID is made by fingerprints comparisons and the
classification of prints
✔✔Decree - ✔✔A decision or order of the court
✔✔Default - ✔✔an action of law occurs when a defendant fails to plead within the time
allowed or fails to appear at the trial
✔✔Demur - ✔✔To file a pleading admitting the truth of the facts in the complaint or
answer, but contending they are legally insufficient
✔✔Deposition - ✔✔The testimony of a witness not taken in open court, but in
pursuance of authority given by statute or rule of court to take testimony else where
✔✔Directed Verdict - ✔✔An instruction by the judge to the jury to return a specific
verdict
✔✔Discovery - ✔✔A proceeding where by one party to an action may be informed as to
facts known by other parties or witnesses
✔✔Dissent - ✔✔A term commonly used to denote the disagreement of one or more
judges of a court with the decision of the majority
, ✔✔Domicile - ✔✔That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. A
person may have several residences, but only one domicile
✔✔Double Jeopardy - ✔✔Common law and constitutional prohibition against more than
on prosecution of the same crime, transaction, or omission
✔✔Due Process - ✔✔Law in its regular course of administrative through the courts of
justice. The guarantee of due process requires that every person have the protection of
fair trial
✔✔Embezzlement - ✔✔The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or
benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
✔✔Equitable Action - ✔✔An action which may be brought for the purpose of restraining
the threatened infliction of wrongs or personal injuries and the prevention of threatened
illegal action
✔✔Expert Evidence - ✔✔Testimony given in relation to some scientific, technical, or
professional matter by experts
✔✔Expunge - ✔✔The act of physically destroying files, records, or information
✔✔Extenuating Circumstances - ✔✔Circumstances which render a crime less
aggravated, heinous, or reprehensible than it would otherwise be
✔✔Extortion, Theft By - ✔✔Unlawfully obtaining property from another by threat. The
threat, regardless of its nature must induce and "oppressive condition of circumstances"
✔✔Extradition - ✔✔The surrender b on state to another of an individual accused or
convicted of an offense outside its own territory and within the territorial jurisdiction of
the other
✔✔Fair Preponderance - ✔✔Evidence sufficient to convince the triers of fact that the
party who has the burden of doing so has established its case
✔✔False Arrest - ✔✔Any unlawful physical restraints of another's liberty, whether in
prison or in custody
✔✔Feigned Accomplice - ✔✔One who, under the direction of law enforcement officer or
upon his/her own initiative, pretends complicity in a crime in order to detect the
perpetrator in an effort to prosecute such perpetrator. As much, there is no criminal
intent on the part of a feigned accomplice, nor does his/her activity constitute
entrapment
