POLICE ACADEMY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Local Agencies: - ✔✔Airport Police
County Marshals
Housing Police
Municipal Police
School District Police
Sheriffs' Departments
Transportation Police
Port Authority Police
✔✔The objectives of the judicial component of the criminal justice system: - ✔✔-
providing due process of the law
- rendering fair judgments
- dispensing just punishment
- assuring victim's rights
✔✔California court systems: - ✔✔-Lower level trial courts receive evidence and
consider cases involving criminal activity or civil disputes.
-Higher level Appellate Courts Referred to as the higher courts of the judicial system
and hear appeals from lower trial courts
✔✔California court system positions: - ✔✔-Judges administer justice in a fair and
impartial manner by applying the facts of the law.
-Prosecuting attorneys prosecute individuals accused of criminal activities by protecting
public rights and privileges.
-Defense attorneys defend the accused and the rights and privileges of citizens
✔✔Judicial process - ✔✔arrest, arraignment, right to bail, bail, preliminary hearing,
indictment, trial, sentencing, grand jury
✔✔Corrections Objectives: - ✔✔- Confining prisoners
- Rehabilitating prisoners
- Supervising parolees and probationers in the community
- Assuring victim's rights
✔✔Corrections agencies' responsibilities: - ✔✔California department of corrections:
operates the states adult present system and confines felons who have been sentenced
to state prison.
, California board of prison terms: supervisors inmates who have been released on
parole from CDCR.
California department of corrections and rehabilitation - juvenile division:
Operates the state youthful offender detention system and confines offenders between
the ages of 13 and 25.
Youthful offender parole board: supervisors wards who has been released on parole
from CDCR - juvenile division.
Local government agencies: Oversee the operation of detention facilities that can find
people who are awaiting trial or sentence to Less than one year.
✔✔parole - ✔✔A conditional release from a state prison which allows an individual to
serve the remainder of a sentence outside of prison
✔✔probation - ✔✔The suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the
order by the court of conditional and revocable release into the community Penal Code
section 1203 and a sentencing option for an individual convicted of a criminal offense.
✔✔Amendments - ✔✔Modifications or changes made for the better, such as
amendments to the US Constitution
✔✔Appeals - ✔✔Requests to a higher court to review or advise decisions made by
lower courts
✔✔Appellate courts - ✔✔Referred to as the higher courts of the judicial system; hear
appeals from lower trial courts
✔✔arrest - ✔✔Taking a person into custody in a case, and in the manner authorized by
the law
✔✔Arraignment - ✔✔Legal procedure where the court informs defendants of the nature
of the charges against them and of their constitutional rights to have counsel, to plead
guilty or not guilty, and to have a jury trial
✔✔Bail - ✔✔A security deposit it with a competent court or magistrate to ensure that the
accused person will appear for trial went salmon
✔✔Bill of Rights - ✔✔The first 10 amendments to the US Constitution
✔✔competent court - ✔✔Any court, civil or criminal, having authority to handle a
particular case
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Local Agencies: - ✔✔Airport Police
County Marshals
Housing Police
Municipal Police
School District Police
Sheriffs' Departments
Transportation Police
Port Authority Police
✔✔The objectives of the judicial component of the criminal justice system: - ✔✔-
providing due process of the law
- rendering fair judgments
- dispensing just punishment
- assuring victim's rights
✔✔California court systems: - ✔✔-Lower level trial courts receive evidence and
consider cases involving criminal activity or civil disputes.
-Higher level Appellate Courts Referred to as the higher courts of the judicial system
and hear appeals from lower trial courts
✔✔California court system positions: - ✔✔-Judges administer justice in a fair and
impartial manner by applying the facts of the law.
-Prosecuting attorneys prosecute individuals accused of criminal activities by protecting
public rights and privileges.
-Defense attorneys defend the accused and the rights and privileges of citizens
✔✔Judicial process - ✔✔arrest, arraignment, right to bail, bail, preliminary hearing,
indictment, trial, sentencing, grand jury
✔✔Corrections Objectives: - ✔✔- Confining prisoners
- Rehabilitating prisoners
- Supervising parolees and probationers in the community
- Assuring victim's rights
✔✔Corrections agencies' responsibilities: - ✔✔California department of corrections:
operates the states adult present system and confines felons who have been sentenced
to state prison.
, California board of prison terms: supervisors inmates who have been released on
parole from CDCR.
California department of corrections and rehabilitation - juvenile division:
Operates the state youthful offender detention system and confines offenders between
the ages of 13 and 25.
Youthful offender parole board: supervisors wards who has been released on parole
from CDCR - juvenile division.
Local government agencies: Oversee the operation of detention facilities that can find
people who are awaiting trial or sentence to Less than one year.
✔✔parole - ✔✔A conditional release from a state prison which allows an individual to
serve the remainder of a sentence outside of prison
✔✔probation - ✔✔The suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the
order by the court of conditional and revocable release into the community Penal Code
section 1203 and a sentencing option for an individual convicted of a criminal offense.
✔✔Amendments - ✔✔Modifications or changes made for the better, such as
amendments to the US Constitution
✔✔Appeals - ✔✔Requests to a higher court to review or advise decisions made by
lower courts
✔✔Appellate courts - ✔✔Referred to as the higher courts of the judicial system; hear
appeals from lower trial courts
✔✔arrest - ✔✔Taking a person into custody in a case, and in the manner authorized by
the law
✔✔Arraignment - ✔✔Legal procedure where the court informs defendants of the nature
of the charges against them and of their constitutional rights to have counsel, to plead
guilty or not guilty, and to have a jury trial
✔✔Bail - ✔✔A security deposit it with a competent court or magistrate to ensure that the
accused person will appear for trial went salmon
✔✔Bill of Rights - ✔✔The first 10 amendments to the US Constitution
✔✔competent court - ✔✔Any court, civil or criminal, having authority to handle a
particular case
