Dover PD – Test, 2026 – Study guide and practice material
Curtilage is defined as - correct answer ✔✔ The area around a home that harbors intimate
activity connected with home life
Which amendment to the US constitution protects against unreasonable search and seizures? -
correct answer ✔✔ 4th
In order to stop and detain someone, an officer must be able to articulate that he has what? -
correct answer ✔✔ Reasonable articulate suspicion
The burden of proof necessary to obtain a search warrant is: - correct answer ✔✔ Probable
Cause
What US Supreme Court decision guides law enforcement on the subject on detentions? -
correct answer ✔✔ Terry vs. Ohio
The right against self-incrimination falls under what constitutional amendment? - correct
answer ✔✔ 5th
Delaware Title 11 Section 1902 states that you can detain someone for up to how long? -
correct answer ✔✔ 2 hours
To effect an arrest requires what legal standard? - correct answer ✔✔ Probable cause
If, during a voluntary contact, the officer asks the person "can you speak with me?" and the
person says "no," the officer should then... - correct answer ✔✔ Let the person leave if no RAS
, For the purpose of a search warrant, "night" is defined as - correct answer ✔✔ 10:00 PM - 6:00
AM
A "daytime" search warrant must be served within how many days of the date it is signed? -
correct answer ✔✔ 10 days
A "nighttime" search warrant must be served within how many days of the date it is signed? -
correct answer ✔✔ 3 days
Which of the following type of evidence suggests as a fact by inference or implication:
direct, circumstantial, real, hearsay - correct answer ✔✔ circumstantial
According to the Shatzer rule, if a person invokes the right to counsel but does not obtain an
attorney, law enforcement can reproach the subject for questioning after how many days? -
correct answer ✔✔ 14 days
True or False: An anonymous tip that a person is carrying a gun, by itself, is sufficient to justify a
police officer's stop and frisk of the person - correct answer ✔✔ False
True or False: In Delaware law, the term "reasonable grounds" means the same as "reasonable
suspicion." - correct answer ✔✔ True
A person shall not do any of the following within ___________________ feet of the building or
other location where a funeral or memorial service is being conducted, or within
_________________ feet of a funeral procession of burial: - correct answer ✔✔ 300 ft & 1000 ft
_______________________ means any condition of the brain or nervous system recognized as
defective, as compared with an average or normal condition, by a substantial part of the
medical profession:
Curtilage is defined as - correct answer ✔✔ The area around a home that harbors intimate
activity connected with home life
Which amendment to the US constitution protects against unreasonable search and seizures? -
correct answer ✔✔ 4th
In order to stop and detain someone, an officer must be able to articulate that he has what? -
correct answer ✔✔ Reasonable articulate suspicion
The burden of proof necessary to obtain a search warrant is: - correct answer ✔✔ Probable
Cause
What US Supreme Court decision guides law enforcement on the subject on detentions? -
correct answer ✔✔ Terry vs. Ohio
The right against self-incrimination falls under what constitutional amendment? - correct
answer ✔✔ 5th
Delaware Title 11 Section 1902 states that you can detain someone for up to how long? -
correct answer ✔✔ 2 hours
To effect an arrest requires what legal standard? - correct answer ✔✔ Probable cause
If, during a voluntary contact, the officer asks the person "can you speak with me?" and the
person says "no," the officer should then... - correct answer ✔✔ Let the person leave if no RAS
, For the purpose of a search warrant, "night" is defined as - correct answer ✔✔ 10:00 PM - 6:00
AM
A "daytime" search warrant must be served within how many days of the date it is signed? -
correct answer ✔✔ 10 days
A "nighttime" search warrant must be served within how many days of the date it is signed? -
correct answer ✔✔ 3 days
Which of the following type of evidence suggests as a fact by inference or implication:
direct, circumstantial, real, hearsay - correct answer ✔✔ circumstantial
According to the Shatzer rule, if a person invokes the right to counsel but does not obtain an
attorney, law enforcement can reproach the subject for questioning after how many days? -
correct answer ✔✔ 14 days
True or False: An anonymous tip that a person is carrying a gun, by itself, is sufficient to justify a
police officer's stop and frisk of the person - correct answer ✔✔ False
True or False: In Delaware law, the term "reasonable grounds" means the same as "reasonable
suspicion." - correct answer ✔✔ True
A person shall not do any of the following within ___________________ feet of the building or
other location where a funeral or memorial service is being conducted, or within
_________________ feet of a funeral procession of burial: - correct answer ✔✔ 300 ft & 1000 ft
_______________________ means any condition of the brain or nervous system recognized as
defective, as compared with an average or normal condition, by a substantial part of the
medical profession:
