LAW ENFORCEMENT COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Unethical Behavior - ✔✔engaging in criminal offenses, such as bribery, perjury, and
misusing their position or authority
✔✔Unethical Behavior Violations as defined by Florida Statutes - ✔✔- perjury by false
written declaration
- perjury when not in an official proceeding
-
- perjury in official proceedings
- perjury by contradictory statements
- false reports to law enforcement authorities
- false official statements
- bribery
- unlawful compensation or reward for official behavior
- refusal to execute criminal process
- misuse of confidential information
- witnesses accepting bribes
✔✔Misuse of position as defined by Florida Statutes - ✔✔No public officer, employee of
an agency, or local government attorney shall corruptly use or attempt to use his or her
official position or any property or resource which may be within his or her trust, or
perform his or her official duties, to secure a special privilege, benefit, or exemption for
himself, herself, or others.
✔✔Explain inappropriate disclosure of confidential information - ✔✔divulging
information from a criminal justice database, sharing crime scene photos, or disclosing
information about victims, witnesses or suspects
✔✔conflict of interest - ✔✔a situation, on or off duty, in which an officer is in a position
to personally benefit from actions or decisions made in their official capacity
✔✔gratuity - ✔✔anything of value intended to benefit the giver more than the receiver
, ✔✔sexual misconduct - ✔✔anything from asking a driver for a date when conducting a
traffic stop, to having sex on duty, even in consensual situations
✔✔hostile work environment - ✔✔a workplace that is difficult or uncomfortable for
another person to work in because of a harasser's behavior
✔✔quid pro quo - ✔✔a Latin term meaning "something for something"
✔✔sexual harassment - ✔✔unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors,
and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature
✔✔identify appropriate responses to sexual harassment - ✔✔-report the behavior to a
supervisor or member of management informally or formally, as agency policies dictate
✔✔E.E.O.C - ✔✔Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
✔✔Describe the consequences of engaging in sexual harassment - ✔✔internal
disciplinary action such as:
- mandatory retraining
- leave without pay
- loss of rank
- termination
CJSTC could revoke the officer's certification
✔✔Discriminatory or bias-based policing - ✔✔unequal treatment of any person,
including stopping, questioning, searching, detaining, or arresting a person solely or
primarily because of the person's race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation,
socioeconomic status, national origin, homeless, status, mental or physical disability,
age, or other self-defining characteristic
✔✔Bias - ✔✔the unfair treatment and attitude toward a group of people and it is
classified as unethical behavior
✔✔Unbiased policing - ✔✔(fair and impartial policing)
is the equal treatment of any person you stop, question, search, detain, or arrest,
regardless of the person's race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation,
socioeconomic status, national origin, homeless status, mental or physical disability,
age, or other self defining characteristic
✔✔explicit bias - ✔✔aware of their dislike of certain groups of people and might be
openly hateful and biased in their actions
✔✔implicit bias - ✔✔is the unconscious beliefs we have about groups of people
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Unethical Behavior - ✔✔engaging in criminal offenses, such as bribery, perjury, and
misusing their position or authority
✔✔Unethical Behavior Violations as defined by Florida Statutes - ✔✔- perjury by false
written declaration
- perjury when not in an official proceeding
-
- perjury in official proceedings
- perjury by contradictory statements
- false reports to law enforcement authorities
- false official statements
- bribery
- unlawful compensation or reward for official behavior
- refusal to execute criminal process
- misuse of confidential information
- witnesses accepting bribes
✔✔Misuse of position as defined by Florida Statutes - ✔✔No public officer, employee of
an agency, or local government attorney shall corruptly use or attempt to use his or her
official position or any property or resource which may be within his or her trust, or
perform his or her official duties, to secure a special privilege, benefit, or exemption for
himself, herself, or others.
✔✔Explain inappropriate disclosure of confidential information - ✔✔divulging
information from a criminal justice database, sharing crime scene photos, or disclosing
information about victims, witnesses or suspects
✔✔conflict of interest - ✔✔a situation, on or off duty, in which an officer is in a position
to personally benefit from actions or decisions made in their official capacity
✔✔gratuity - ✔✔anything of value intended to benefit the giver more than the receiver
, ✔✔sexual misconduct - ✔✔anything from asking a driver for a date when conducting a
traffic stop, to having sex on duty, even in consensual situations
✔✔hostile work environment - ✔✔a workplace that is difficult or uncomfortable for
another person to work in because of a harasser's behavior
✔✔quid pro quo - ✔✔a Latin term meaning "something for something"
✔✔sexual harassment - ✔✔unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors,
and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature
✔✔identify appropriate responses to sexual harassment - ✔✔-report the behavior to a
supervisor or member of management informally or formally, as agency policies dictate
✔✔E.E.O.C - ✔✔Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
✔✔Describe the consequences of engaging in sexual harassment - ✔✔internal
disciplinary action such as:
- mandatory retraining
- leave without pay
- loss of rank
- termination
CJSTC could revoke the officer's certification
✔✔Discriminatory or bias-based policing - ✔✔unequal treatment of any person,
including stopping, questioning, searching, detaining, or arresting a person solely or
primarily because of the person's race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation,
socioeconomic status, national origin, homeless, status, mental or physical disability,
age, or other self-defining characteristic
✔✔Bias - ✔✔the unfair treatment and attitude toward a group of people and it is
classified as unethical behavior
✔✔Unbiased policing - ✔✔(fair and impartial policing)
is the equal treatment of any person you stop, question, search, detain, or arrest,
regardless of the person's race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation,
socioeconomic status, national origin, homeless status, mental or physical disability,
age, or other self defining characteristic
✔✔explicit bias - ✔✔aware of their dislike of certain groups of people and might be
openly hateful and biased in their actions
✔✔implicit bias - ✔✔is the unconscious beliefs we have about groups of people
