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SCCJA CUMULATIVE ACADEMY EXAM |
FREQUENTLY TESTED QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS | BRAND NEW!
What are the types of crime scene locations? - ✔✔✔ correct answer >
1. Indoors
2. Outside
3. Conveyances-things that move.
4 On the victim/suspect or their environment
What amendment cover search and seizure? - ✔✔✔ correct answer >
4th Amendment
What is the most important thing on a crime scene? - ✔✔✔ correct
answer > officer safety
What is a Crime Scene? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > The location where a
crime has been committed or any place that evidence relating to
a crime may be found.
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What is evidence? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > Any material, however
microscopic, solid, liquid or gaseous that may aid in the
determination of the truth during the investigation of a crime.
What are the type of evidence - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 1. Prints
2. Blood and body fluids
3. Trace evidence
4. Footwear impressions
5. Tire impressions
6. Transient victim injuries
7. Weapons
What did the Tennessee vs. Garner (1985) rule establish? - ✔✔✔
correct answer > Deadly force may not be used against an unarmed
and fleeing suspect unless necessary to prevent the escape and
unless the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect
poses a significant threat of death or serious injury to the
officers or others.
Graham vs. Connor - ✔✔✔ correct answer > Judged from the
perspective of a reasonable and necessary( prudent ) rather than
officer perception. *Reasonable standard
What is a reactionary gap? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 6-8 Feet
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What are the 4 ways a vulnerable adult victimized? - ✔✔✔ correct
answer > 1. Caregiver Stress
2. Perpetrator Characteristics
3. Inter-generational/Trans-generational violence
4. Self Abuse/ Neglect
Who reads your reports? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 1. Your first
leader(Supervisor)
2. Follow up investigators
3. Attorneys
4. Judges
5. Responding officers (Backup)
6. Victims
7. Civil courts
8. Probation Officers.
9. Advocates
10. The Media
What is communication? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > The exchange of
information or the technique of expressing ideas effectively
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What is a report? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > any written or electronic
communication on a departmental form.
What are the elements of a good report? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 1.
Factual
2. Clear
3. complete
4. Concise
5. impartial
6. Correct word transition
7. Cardinal Rule (self-explanatory, establish the elements of the
crime, and be in chronological order
What are of the step to writing a good report? - ✔✔✔ correct answer >
1. Prewriting
2. Organizing
3. Revise for Clarity
4. write in "First Person"
5. Proofread
What are the three pages of a report? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 1.
Incident Report- page one
2. Supplementary Report -page two
SCCJA CUMULATIVE ACADEMY EXAM |
FREQUENTLY TESTED QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS | BRAND NEW!
What are the types of crime scene locations? - ✔✔✔ correct answer >
1. Indoors
2. Outside
3. Conveyances-things that move.
4 On the victim/suspect or their environment
What amendment cover search and seizure? - ✔✔✔ correct answer >
4th Amendment
What is the most important thing on a crime scene? - ✔✔✔ correct
answer > officer safety
What is a Crime Scene? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > The location where a
crime has been committed or any place that evidence relating to
a crime may be found.
,Page 2 of 37
What is evidence? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > Any material, however
microscopic, solid, liquid or gaseous that may aid in the
determination of the truth during the investigation of a crime.
What are the type of evidence - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 1. Prints
2. Blood and body fluids
3. Trace evidence
4. Footwear impressions
5. Tire impressions
6. Transient victim injuries
7. Weapons
What did the Tennessee vs. Garner (1985) rule establish? - ✔✔✔
correct answer > Deadly force may not be used against an unarmed
and fleeing suspect unless necessary to prevent the escape and
unless the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect
poses a significant threat of death or serious injury to the
officers or others.
Graham vs. Connor - ✔✔✔ correct answer > Judged from the
perspective of a reasonable and necessary( prudent ) rather than
officer perception. *Reasonable standard
What is a reactionary gap? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 6-8 Feet
,Page 3 of 37
What are the 4 ways a vulnerable adult victimized? - ✔✔✔ correct
answer > 1. Caregiver Stress
2. Perpetrator Characteristics
3. Inter-generational/Trans-generational violence
4. Self Abuse/ Neglect
Who reads your reports? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 1. Your first
leader(Supervisor)
2. Follow up investigators
3. Attorneys
4. Judges
5. Responding officers (Backup)
6. Victims
7. Civil courts
8. Probation Officers.
9. Advocates
10. The Media
What is communication? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > The exchange of
information or the technique of expressing ideas effectively
, Page 4 of 37
What is a report? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > any written or electronic
communication on a departmental form.
What are the elements of a good report? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 1.
Factual
2. Clear
3. complete
4. Concise
5. impartial
6. Correct word transition
7. Cardinal Rule (self-explanatory, establish the elements of the
crime, and be in chronological order
What are of the step to writing a good report? - ✔✔✔ correct answer >
1. Prewriting
2. Organizing
3. Revise for Clarity
4. write in "First Person"
5. Proofread
What are the three pages of a report? - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 1.
Incident Report- page one
2. Supplementary Report -page two
